Bernard said to Captain Solo, "I said I should land here, I remember Jack was here." ”

Juan remembered that Soma didn't announce Jack's guilt before leaving in order not to ruin the plan, so Berner didn't know.

He interrupted: "Why, if you don't land on the tarmac, where else can you land?" This planet is just such a platform where spaceships can take off and land. ”

"The captain said he was going to stop at the orc plains north of Mount Majaro, and that the address marked by the consignee was there," Berner said.

"I said no, the soil is too soft there, and the spacecraft will sink when it lands."

Juan thought to himself that even if you stopped at the Orc Plains, you wouldn't find Jack.

He chimed in: "The soil of the Orc Plains sucks up water for a rainy season, not to mention a spaceship, even a car will press out water. ”

Captain Solo said unconcernedly, "It's okay, my ship has been modified, and it can land even in swamps."

"I prefer to park in the wilderness rather than pay taxes."

Juan heard Captain Solo's concern, and he patted the other man on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I'll give you tax exemption, permanently." ”

Captain Solo suddenly became sunny, and he laughed and had a drink with Juan.

Then Captain Solo jokingly said, "No, no, I don't dare to come again, your planet is too remote and too difficult to find."

"I lost a lot of money to send this batch of goods, and I can make twice the profit by taking other routes at this time."

Juan is in desperate need of a spaceship docking, and he's fed up with the feeling of being abandoned by the world.

He hurriedly explained: "You are just unlucky, you have come across this planet once in twenty or thirty years. ”

"What, crossing?"

Juan saw the surprised expressions of Captain Solo and Captain Bernard the Navigator, and he told him about the beautiful planet's travel to another three-dimensional dimension.

At the end, Juan raised his chin dementally: "What's the matter, even those of you who have traveled all over the star map have never experienced it." ”

Captain Solo touched his smooth chin and said, "I've heard something like this, in our no-tax captains' circles, someone once mentioned Star Trek.

"Say without warning, and suddenly all the reference stars are gone, replaced by a completely unfamiliar galaxy.

"Later, he ventured to start the space jump, and actually came back, but when he explored again, he couldn't find that strange galaxy."

Bernard sighed: "I really didn't expect this kind of thing, I've been running interstellar routes for so many years, why have I never encountered it?" ”

Captain Solo sneered: "You used to be a well-established master, and you ran mature routes.

"I don't know how many spaceships have run those routes, so they must be risk-free.

"Like us, in order to avoid taxes, sometimes we have to take some routes that few people know about, and this kind of route may have a mortal danger anywhere."

Berner probably drank a little too much, and he unceremoniously debunked: "Come on, what tax evasion, it's not smuggling." ”

Juan didn't want everyone to be unhappy, so he diverted the topic and asked, "Berner, I haven't asked you yet, how did you change the owner?" ”

Berner poured another sip of whiskey, sighed and said, "The world is difficult, and the original aerospace company can't survive, so it can only lay off employees."

"I was unemployed for a while, and when I heard that someone needed a navigator who had been to the beautiful planet, I rushed to recommend myself, and ended up on their thief ship."

"Hahahaha" "Roar roar"

Captain Solo and First Officer Chewbacca, who were not at all angry about the "thief ship", seemed happy to see Berner deflated.

Captain Solo put his arm around Bernard's shoulders and said, "Once you're on my ship, don't worry about going down, do a good job, hahaha." ”

Juan knew that the censorship of the aerospace company was very strict, and anyone who had been involved in smuggling would never be hired.

So even if the world gets better and the aerospace company hires people again, Berner won't be able to take his turn.

The profession of navigator has extremely low applicability, and there is no other way out except for serving space flight.

So Bernard either changed careers or lost his job.

If he wants to go to space again, he can only follow Captain Solo to engage in smuggling.

But this is Berner's choice, whether he is willing or not, Juan can't help.

Juan could only accompany Berner for a drink while diverting the topic:

"By the way, Berner, let me ask you a professional question, how did a spaceship suddenly jump from one place to another?

"Some people say that it bends space with a curvature engine, is that right?"

"That's," Berner said of his area of expertise, "how much energy does it take to bend space, and it's light-years space?"

"Trust me, no matter how big a spaceship is, you can't do it."

Juan wondered, "But all the spaceships are jumping, and they can cross hundreds of thousands of light-years or more in a short period of time, how do they do it?" ”

Bernard didn't answer directly, he asked rhetorically, "Do you know the time?" ”

"Time? Well, it's four o'clock in the afternoon. ”

"I'm not asking you this, I'm saying, how do you understand 'time'?"

"Well, I know that we are in a four-dimensional space-time, that is, three-dimensional space, plus one-dimensional time, but time can't go back, so that's probably it."

Bernard asked in a solemn tone, "What do you think is the 'nature of time'?" ”

Juan had only graduated from college, and such an esoteric question was beyond his cognition, but with brain chips and networks, it was not difficult to copy an answer.

Juan recounted the answer he had just found: "The essence of time is movement. ”

"Correct."

Bernard gave Juan a thumbs up, and then he staggered to his feet and walked to the corner.

Bernard lit a cigar on the wallpaper on two walls in the corner, the same height, and burned a point each.

Juan's eyes twitched, but he didn't say anything to stop it.

Then Berner pointed to a point with a cigar and said, "Suppose there is a two-dimensional creature in two-dimensional space, and now, he wants to start from this point and take a two-dimensional spaceship to another point." ”

Bernard uses the shadow of the cigar to represent the two-dimensional spaceship, and he moves the cigar so that the shadow of the cigar pans across the wall, reaches the corner of the wall, and then pans to another point.

"The distance from a point to a corner is a light year, and his two-dimensional spacecraft is the speed of light.

"Of course, it can't be the speed of light, only things without mass, such as photons, can reach the speed of light, and anything with mass can't reach the speed of light.

"But for the sake of convenience, I'll assume that this two-dimensional ship is flying at the speed of light.

"So, how much time does this journey take at the shortest?"

"The two-dimensional spacecraft naturally flies against the wall, and the two points to the corner of the wall are each one light year, so it takes at least two years to fly at the speed of light."

"That's right, that's how a spaceship flies in the same dimensional space.

"Next, let's talk about the jump."