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The first to change was Earth, and almost in the blink of an eye, the blue planet became unrecognizable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Obviously, it is still the earth, but it is not the earth that Yang Yi saw in the photo, but a planet whose ecological environment has been severely damaged and is almost completely urbanized. On this not big planet, there are hundreds of billions of inhabitants, not only on the surface of the planet, but also in orbit. The planet's own resources have long been depleted, and humans have set their sights on other nearby planets, including the Earth's moon moon, as well as the moons of two adjacent terrestrial planets and even several giant planets, and have established colonies on these planets. It's just that compared to the survival needs of trillions of people, the resources are pitifully small, and human beings can only continue to expand outward.

The planetary rings in geosynchronous orbit are not only a huge space city, but also a base for human progress.

Every day, thousands of ships depart from the planet's rings to the colonies scattered throughout the solar system, and nearly the same number return from each colony. In addition to these transport ships, there are also a large number of expedition ships that leave or return from time to time. It's just that the departing ships are far more than the returning ones, and almost every one of them is devastated and some are even badly damaged.

In that era, space exploration was the industry with the highest mortality rate. However, the returns are also the highest.

Although out of every ten expedition ships, not necessarily one can return safely, and less than one in a thousand can return with a full load, as long as there is a harvest, even if it is only a celestial body made entirely of rocks, as long as the mass is huge enough, it can make explorers rich overnight. If you find a celestial body made of heavy elements, or an ice comet, even if you only determine its orbit, you will get enough wealth for the enemy. In the centuries at the end of the First Age, it was the staggering rewards that made astronautical exploration one of the most popular professions. At that time, many people's dream was to become an astronaut explorer, and all they did was to dream of getting rich overnight.

At this time, an expedition spaceship without any characteristics appeared beside Yang Yi.

Like other expedition spacecraft, this expedition spacecraft went to the first Lagrange point after takeoff, using the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Moon to save fuel. After that, follow the gravitational route, that is, take full advantage of the gravitational pull of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, fly to the outermost layers of the solar system, and go there in search of valuable objects, or large meteorites to be precise.

After hundreds of years, the large objects in the outer solar system, namely dwarf planets, asteroids and comets, have long been exploited by human beings, even those with a diameter of more than one kilometer. What has not yet been opened, or that has not been revealed, are small objects with a diameter of about 100 meters. As long as you can find one such celestial body, and the luck is not too bad, and there are some resources on it that are worth opening, such as heavy elements, you can ensure that the expedition does not lose money. If a little more luck, such as an ice comet, then just bringing this celestial body back to Earth, just the water it brings back, is enough to make the explorer a wealthy man.

Of course, the vast majority of explorers lost their lives or even took their lives.

The key point is that due to the limitations of space technology, even the most advanced exploration spacecraft at that time would take ten or even twenty years to carry out an expedition in the outer space of the solar system. During this period, the consumption of the explorer himself alone was enormous. Typically, an expedition ship has two explorers who are in a close relationship, either as a partner, father and son, or as siblings. If you find nothing in the 10 to 20 years of exploration, even if you come back alive, you will face a bank that collects debts, and then you will become poor, and finally usher in the end of your life in poverty. That's why many explorers would rather take risks than go home empty-handed. Moreover, in order to escape their creditors, some unsuccessful explorers will flee to some outlawless land, such as a remote colony. As a result, out of every 1,000 explorers, there is probably not even one who can actually return home.

Of course, Yang Yi's grandfather and grandmother are not among them.

After a long voyage, the spacecraft flew past Pluto's orbit and into the outermost Oort cloud of the solar system a few years later.

For explorers, this is both a treasure and a cemetery.

Entering the Oort Cloud indicates the official start of the expedition.

It's just that there's no passion at all.

In fact, space exploration is an extremely boring affair, because after a long voyage that lasts for years, what awaits the explorer is perhaps another period of exploration that lasts for years, or even a decade, followed by a phase, which lasts for several years. For the vast majority of these twenty years, the explorer has nothing to do, all the explorer has to do is keep an eye on his surroundings, re-plan his course based on what he sees, or signs, or even personal speculation, and then continue his search. If you are lucky, you will reap the rewards, and if you are unlucky, you will do useless work. In order to save money and reduce costs, many expedition ships have only basic survival facilities and are not equipped with additional entertainment equipment. In fact, this is also the key to why the expedition spacecraft has at least two explorers on board, and the explorers have a relatively close relationship. Human beings are social animals, and it is difficult to survive after leaving society, and society itself is the relationship between people, and two people are the smallest social unit.

When the massive object appeared, the image quickly approached, and two people appeared, both wearing bulky-looking spacesuits.

It wasn't an object, it was a strange-looking, pitch-black spaceship.

The two explorers did not board the ship, but just flew around the ship and then returned to the spacecraft.

At this time, Yang Yi also entered the expedition spacecraft.

Two explorers have taken off their spacesuits, one of them is Yang Yi's grandfather, and he looks like he was young, and the other explorer is a beautiful woman.

Grandmother?

Yang Yi has seen a photo of his grandmother, but he has only seen it once, and it is an old photo. Obviously, Yang Yi didn't expect that his grandmother would be a big beauty when she was young.

The two had an argument and had a heated argument.

As Yang Yi knew, Grandpa thought that the spaceship was too weird and felt that he should leave immediately and not cause trouble for himself, while Grandma didn't want to run in vain, because they had already used up more than half of their time, and the remaining supplies would allow them to search for another three years at most, and then they would have to return, and in the next three years, the probability of finding a valuable celestial object was extremely slim. If they go home empty-handed, they will lose everything.

After arguing for a while, it was probably because both of them were tired of arguing, so they stopped, and then they left.

Seeing this scene, Yang Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Obviously, you already know what's going to happen next."

The sudden voice startled Yang Yi, and when he turned around, a middle-aged man stood behind him.

is a dazzlingly handsome man.

Although it can be seen that he is certainly not young, his appearance is very handsome, so perfect that he does not look like a big living person of flesh and blood at all.

"You ......"

"What happens next is the origin, or the cause of everything that follows."

Yang Yi was slightly stunned and sighed again.

He knew, of course, that after the argument, Grandma had left the expedition ship and headed to the mysterious ship alone, and that she was pregnant shortly after returning.

"The fact that you can come here and know this shows that your relationship with Yang Feng is extraordinary. If I'm not mistaken, he's your grandfather. ”

Yang Yi smiled reluctantly and said, "If I guessed correctly, you are his son, to be precise, an intelligent program with his son's memory." ”

"That's right, but Yang Feng is not my father, at most he can only be regarded as my adoptive father."

Yang Yi did not deny it, after all, this is a fact.

"It's just that they know too little."

"Really?"

"Besides, you don't know all about it."

Yang Yi was stunned for a moment, but then he realized that in this place, there were no secrets in his consciousness, so what he knew was not a secret.

"As you might guess, this is a spaceship left behind by the creators. So, why did the creators leave this spaceship? ”

"Why?" Yang Yi simply asked directly, so as not to beat around the bush.

"Obviously, the creator left the spaceship here in the hope that one day it could be found by humans and then used for it. The question is, if the creators want to help humanity, why not leave this ship somewhere more easily found? The man smiled faintly and said, "Of course, you have already guessed. The creators don't want humans to appear on this spaceship too early, and they don't want humans to cross that red line too early. In addition, if human technology is not adequate, even if this spaceship exists, it may not be able to use it. Before that, the creators had already tried, and the result was very bad. So the creators left the ship at the edge of the solar system......"

"What attempt?"

The man didn't say much, just waved his hand slightly.

The surrounding scene changed, and Yang Yi returned to the ground himself, to be precise, on the earth, and on the earth in ancient times.

"This ......"

Looking at the desert in the distance, and the pyramids standing in the desert, Yang Yi was dumbfounded.

"Ancient Egypt, an ancient civilization of mankind, existed in the early First Age."

"You mean ......"

"You've thought of it. Ancient Egypt built so many pyramids, not for the sake of the pharaoh, but for the rulers above the pharaohs, that is, the creators who came to the earth at that time. It's a pity that the technology at that time was too backward and even had nothing to do with science at all, so the help of the creators did not bring obvious results. Thousands of years later, this ancient civilization, favored by its creators, decayed and perished. ”8