(Volume 6: The Light of the Dark Sun)

The afternoon sun shone down on the street, and two beautiful young women walked and laughed, and two men each led a five-year-old boy to follow.

This is Hope City, 17th Street. These two women are Bai Ziying and Luo Lanxue. This year is the 39th year of Tianyuan, the first anniversary of the Ming Navy leaving the three-star system on the other side to start the interstellar sea voyage.

Hope City, officially known as "Hope City", is composed of 12 modules within the starfortress "Hope". When the modules are combined, they become a complete fortress, which is interconnected internally to form an artificial city "Hope City".

Hope City is composed of three layers, each of which is about 300 meters high, and together the thickest part of the middle is a kilometer thick. The edges around it are relatively thin, so the upper and lower layers do not have such a large area, and they reach the end not far from the middle eye.

The Interstellar Fortress Hope can carry 12 million people at full capacity, and it can comfortably survive in it, it has its own ecological circulation system and complete facilities. It currently has 8 million people.

This Xiaoying and Xiaoxue were each carrying two large shopping bags, full of clothes, shoes, cosmetics and other things. Not far in front of the street is the bus stop, where you can wait for the flying bus. The flying bus can take them to Skyport, where they can take a commuter ship to the flagship Dream Chaser.

The two of them took advantage of the vacation to come to the fortress for shopping and leisure. "Ah, I'm exhausted!" Xiaoxue stretched out her hands, spun around in circles, and said, "Let's rest for a while, Xiaoying." ”

"There's an open-air café in front, let's go there and rest for a while, there's time anyway." Xiaoying said, looked back at the two robots and the two children behind her, and shouted, "Let's rest in front, don't worry, come slowly!" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw tomorrow Q running into the street. Although Hope City now has 8 million residents, most of them are minors, and most of them work in the fleet. Even minors, from elementary school to high school, interned, school, and lived in the fleet. Only children under the age of seven live in childcare facilities.

And Hope City is a young city, and only Dawn has a few old people. Therefore, the whole city of hope is still very empty. Most of the houses are empty, so there are very few cars on the streets.

So Xiao Q, that is, Bai Ziying's son Q tomorrow, he dares to run on the street. But he hadn't run far when he heard the robot Ming A chasing after him, and shouted, "Come back to me quickly, little ancestor!" As he spoke, he ran over, grabbed Xiao Q's collar, and dragged it back like a chicken.

Xiao Q shouted with his teeth and claws: "Daddy spare your life!" ”

Seeing this scene, Xiaoxue couldn't help laughing, and Xiaoying couldn't help but smile and shook her head. Said: "Regardless of them, let's go!" ”

The two women continued to walk forward, and Xiao Q shouted behind him: "Mom, help!" ”

The two ignored it, came to the roadside coffee and found a seat to sit down, asked for coffee, and rested while waiting for the father and son composed of two pairs of robots and humans behind.

"A month ago, all the hanging peaks of the Lighthouse Star suddenly exploded, killing more than 10,000 Wind Clansmen," Xiaoxue said, "Xiaoying, what do you think?" ”

After the Ming Navy began interstellar migration, there were still 100,000 Lighthouse people who were unwilling to go, including more than 10,000 Wind Clan and more than 80,000 Audrey. And most of the more than 10,000 Wind Clan people lived on the Hanging Peak, and the Hanging Peak suddenly exploded inexplicably, and these people could not escape the catastrophe and were killed by the explosion.

Xiaoying drank coffee, shrugged her shoulders and said, "I don't know."

"You're so smart, you must be able to guess something, you can analyze it for me." Xiaoxue said.

Xiaoying smiled and said, "Actually, I'm also guessing, and it's not necessarily right." ”

"Tell me about it, talk about it."

"Did you know that 20 years ago, a flying snake came out of the body of Olympus?" Xiaoying asked.

"Of course we know," Xiaoxue said, "It is because of this snake that we discovered that there is a space-time gate hidden in the peak body of Olympus, and then started a top-secret exploration plan, sending five warriors to cross the space-time gate and go to the other world for an expedition." It's a pity that none of them came back, and in a blink of an eye, 20 years have passed. It's fast in the world! ”

"Over the years," Xiaoying said, "there have been scholars who have studied and speculated about the space-time gate, and one of the more popular hypotheses is that on the other side of the space-time gate is another universe, which may be a parallel universe or a bubble universe outside our universe." ”

The reason why Xiaoying said this is because 20 years ago, after the Baizixiong commando crossed, quantum communication could not be connected, but it showed that they were in the zenith direction 100 billion light-years away from the lighthouse star. That's why there is the bubble universe, which is an unimaginable distance, which can be understood as two different universes, two universes wrapped in different bubbles.

Xiaoying said again: "Since the Teng Snake can pass over, and our commandos can pass through, why won't there be more otherworldly things to cross over." ”

Xiaoxue asked in surprise, "More otherworldly things?" More powerful than a snake? And it's still a lot? ”

"There is nothing impossible in this world," Xiaoying said, "I guessed that the world on the other side of the space-time gate may have realized that we have a certain amount of scientific and technological knowledge, so they remotely controlled it over there and blew up the space-time gate." ”

"No," said Xiaoxue, "isn't there only a space-time gate in Olympus?" Ah......" Xiao Xue said this, as if she remembered something, pointed at Xiao Ying, her mouth grew up, and her eyes widened, "It turns out that there is a gate of time and space in every hanging peak!" ”

Xiaoying smiled and did not answer.

"It's incredible!" Xiaoxue stood up, pacing in place, her hands on her scalp, "But why?" Why? Xiaoying, don't say it, let me think about it! ”

"It turns out that the hanging peak is not naturally formed!" After thinking about it for a long time, Xiaoxue came to such a conclusion, but she didn't have the confidence to make this inference valid, so she looked at Xiaoying with suspicion.

Xiao Yingxuan spoke, but encouraged her to continue with her eyes.

Xiaoxue said: "Very early on, the Otherworld arranged a large number of space-time gates on our lighthouse star, and in order to hide these gates, they created hanging peaks to wrap these doors.

"Who knew that the gravitational pull of the lighthouse star is more disordered, and there is a gravitational equilibrium plane in the sky. Then they just lifted these hanging peaks that wrapped the gate of time and space into the air, forming the current upper world. Later, with the evolution of creatures, there were also Wind Clan people on the hanging peak. That's right, Xiaoying, it must be like this! Xiaoxue reasoned excitedly.

(End of chapter)