Chapter 20: The Wandering Traveler No. 2
As early as the 23rd century, the explosion of science and technology has brought human progress to a great step, and the application of new technologies has naturally entered the field of human food.
Some people think that humans spend a lot of time making food and that they should spend more time doing other things. For Chinese people with tradition flowing in their bones, food has always been a sacred thing, and they do not allow high-tech intervention to destroy the original appearance of food. After all, when it comes to eating, the Chinese have a say in the entire solar system.
Even if the Explorer only has tomatoes and potatoes on it, the late team of the Explorer will be able to give you seven or eight hometown dishes. The Chinese culture of eating is more of a symbol of reunion, and more of a big family gathering around the dinner table during the Spring Festival, everyone is talking and laughing about everything that happened last year. So even after six or seven thousand years, Chinese still like to use chopsticks to gather around their families and relatives to slowly enjoy this moment of reunion.
The crew members who had just woken up from their long sleep gathered in the Explorer's dining room, a favorite spot for everyone. As a chef, Da Mei likes to prepare a breakfast of her hometown for the crew members who have just woken up.
In the center of the restaurant is a three-dimensional model of the solar system, and next to the model is a huge round table, on which are placed all kinds of breakfast from all over the country, such as baked cakes, fried dough sticks, tofu brain, spicy soup, porridge and other foods. The thick white mist emitted by the equipment under the dining table is reminiscent of the early morning queue for breakfast when Earth time. There is a 24-hour drink machine on the side, so you can drink a cup of hot soy milk or a cold Coke anytime, anywhere.
"Biluochun cultivated on the spaceship, don't say it's exactly the same as my hometown, you come to smell this fragrance, tsk." One of the crew members said to the man next to him.
Nan Jia seemed to hear their conversation, and leaned over to say proudly to everyone: "How can there be our Yuhua tea cow, although it is not as famous as yours, but our 'Yuhua soup' has not decreased from morning to afternoon tea soup." ”
"Nanjia, I see that you know a lot at a young age. Then do you know what Biluochun used to be called? ”
"I must know this, my mother is from Suzhou, and we are also half a fellow countryman, if I remember correctly, it is called 'scaring people', according to legend, it is still the name changed by Qianlong!"
"Hahaha, this Qianlong is everywhere, he went to Jiangnan and did a lot of anecdotes."
When everyone was talking and laughing, the door of the restaurant opened, and it was Qi Ming. He wasn't wearing a bionic aid, and the look of disappointment wasn't on his face. Qi Ming walked to the drinking equipment, took a cup of soy milk, turned his head and saw that Nan Jia was already next to him, he didn't know how to speak, and he seemed to have a lot of things to say, the expression on his face was very complicated, after holding it for a long time, he took a sip of soy milk and said: "This is the taste of home, but it seems that something is missing." ”
Nan Jia may have forgiven Qi Ming, and the most important thing is that the tacit understanding established between the two of them made Nan Jia feel Qi Ming's helpless, powerful and uncontrollable feeling. Nan Jia seemed to have lost his attention to the past, and said to Qi Ming: "Is there a lack of duck blood fans?" I think Damei has already prepared it for you. ”
"No, not duck blood fans. But I'm glad you're here, and that feeling is much less. ”
"Let's go, let's go to dinner together, everyone is here, it's up to you." Nanjia responded.
"Hmm."
Nan Jia pulled Qi Ming to the seat, and not long after the two sat down, Da Mei brought a basin of duck blood vermicelli soup with hot water.
"Brother Ming, eat it while it's hot, I know you might miss this."
"Wow, thank you Damei. Why don't you sit down with us, have you eaten? ”
"I've already eaten it, you guys are busy first." Although Da Mei doesn't know physics, she also has a sincere heart, and she is also a great warrior, just like other logistics staff, they are all fearless warriors, and they do their best to provide life support for all the crew members on the Explorer. The Explorer is also a microcosm of the whole society, everyone does their best for the whole society, and no one is a superfluous element of this society. Although we work day after day, without day after day work, there will be no whole society.
While everyone in the dining room was talking and laughing, almost at the same time, the personnel in charge of salvage on the spaceship received a message from the captain: Please come to the command room after the meal and we have a mission.
While everyone was still in doubt, the model of the solar system in the center of the restaurant began to change. A probe appeared in the solar system model, and after the probe accelerated out of the solar system from Earth through Saturn, the probe disappeared into a holographic projection, followed by a live broadcast of the captain. The captain said to the people in the dining room, "This is the Explorer 2 spacecraft that was launched from Earth in 1977. Just now, it was discovered by a deep space probe in front of it, and it had lost power and was floating in the universe. By 3,000 A.D., there was no trace of Voyager 2, some people thought it was captured by extraterrestrial life, while others thought it had been accidentally destroyed in the universe. I didn't expect to find it now. After discussion, we decided to salvage it. All relevant persons in charge should be prepared for research and restoration. ”
Everyone was surprised when they got the news, they didn't expect that after thousands of years, Voyager 2 was still alive, but it had lost its power and floated in the universe.
"I really didn't expect that Voyager 2, which has been missing for thousands of years, is actually here." A crew member said.
"I really didn't expect it, did you say that the group of unknown beings discovered it and forcibly shut it down?" Another crew member replied.
"Quite possibly, remember when we left the solar system? The creatures had warned us not to leave, maybe they had detected Voyager and made Voyager space junk. ”
"It's possible, maybe there's always been a mysterious force around us, but we don't know it. Maybe we're still around the solar system, and all the things here were created for us by that unknown life! ”
"Then this civilization should be quite good, after all, it can create wormholes, and it can also create black holes! It is possible to destroy us like pinching an ant to death. ”
"We may all be inferior to ants."
Nan Jia heard their conversation, slowly came up, and then cleared his throat and said, "Why are you so pessimistic, to be honest, if the outside is all simulated, you dare to go out and have a look, I don't dare, why are you doing?" Besides, didn't the explorer bring back the news before it disappeared, and couldn't so many top scientists at that time tell whether the surroundings were real or simulated through data analysis? I see you, you're just sleepy! ”
"It's just a casual mention, isn't it boring. We can all use computers to change our dream environment, and surely others can too! Nanjia, don't be so optimistic, I would like to believe that we are actually lying somewhere in the universe, and then there are a whole bunch of machines that are changing our brain waves to make us feel like we are living in a real environment. ”
"Tut-tut, wait for the salvage of Voyager 2, don't you know everything at a glance?" Nanjia responded.
"Hahaha, just kidding, I'm also a staunch materialist, we're astrophysicists, and we're not fortune tellers, how can we believe in these things!"
"You also know that you are a physicist, and I, a common man, know it. You big scientists are a bit too much! ”