Chapter 7: Passing by Jupiter (Seeking to Pursue and Collect)

The Earth is still spinning.

Planetary engines located in the Northern Hemisphere propel the Earth forward and are not disturbed by the Earth's rotation.

Because the rotation of the earth is from west to east.

At this time, the earth is like a sphere that is rotating and being pushed forward.

At the same time, the steering engines built around the equator will also be activated, causing the Earth to slowly stop its rotation as it advances.

This is the plan selected by Lin Xu after discussing with Taiyin, Yingfu, and Qiming.

Compared to going through the brake era, the progress can be faster.

Moreover, the thrust generated by 100,000 planetary engines is enough to implement such a scheme.

Then there's no need to waste time.

However, there is still some time that must be wasted.

Although the thrust of 100,000 planetary engines is strong, it cannot directly push the earth out of the solar system and escape the gravitational range of the sun.

The Earth still has to fly ten times around the sun to accelerate.

Each of these ten circles will become more and more elliptical and flattened, until the tenth circle, completely out of the solar system.

In these ten laps, the first few laps, because of the propulsion of the planetary engine, will take much less time to each lap than when the earth once revolved around the sun, a year's time.

But in the back, because each revolution is getting more and more elliptical and farther away from the sun, even with the thrust provided by the planetary engine, the time taken by each revolution is greater than the normal time of the earth revolving around the sun, which is a year.

Therefore, one more and one less, it is expected to take about ten years to complete these ten turns.

In other words, it is not surprising that ten years after Lin Xu ordered the ignition, the earth will be able to completely leave the solar system.

The ecological dome of the Qinling Mountains has been activated.

The huge ecological dome restricts the air within a radius of 10 kilometers and prevents the air from escaping.

However, at the top of the ecological dome above, the artificial sun of nuclear fusion has not yet been activated.

After all, there is still a real sun, so Lin Xu wants to feel it for a while.

Until Miss Qiu came to remind him again that the time had come.

"Master, the dormancy chamber is ready."

"Let's go." Lin Xu said, getting up from the balcony on the second floor of the wooden house.

Stepping on the wooden stairs and creaking to the first floor.

Push the door and go out and wind along the bamboo forest path, with a waterfall on one side and a steep mountain on the other.

After turning a few corners, a seemingly natural cave appeared in Lin Xu's line of sight.

It's just that inside this cave, there is a soft light.

A maglev car slowly drove out of the mountain and stopped beside Lin Xu.

Lin Xu got into the car and started, and it didn't take long for him to drive out of a long corridor and come to a square-like hall deep in the mountain.

There are countless rooms in the hall, and there are also countless corridors.

Those corridors lead to various locations throughout the Qinling ecosystem.

Just like the corridor that Lin Xu had just come over.

And this is where the control center of the Qinling ecosphere is located.

The hovercar stops in the center of the general hall of the square.

Lin Xu and Miss Qiu got off here, took the elevator in the center of the hall, and went all the way down.

This is when we came to the control room of the control center.

The equipment terminals that control the various functions of the ecological dome of the Qinling Ecological Circle are all here.

Even in reality, the ecological dome is controlled by a quantum computer, and there is no need for a control room.

However, according to the regulations, the control room and manual control equipment are still necessary.

And Lin Xu does not intend to abolish this regulation.

However, this is not Lin Xu's destination.

Next to the control room, the room with the dormant bin is the reason why Lin Xu came here.

After all, it is necessary to sleep, and it must be in the safest place possible.

And this time, Lin Xu's dormancy time is exactly ten years.

He wants to take one last look at the sun before the earth leaves the solar system completely.

When Lin Xu seemed to have slept and woke up again under the welcome of Miss Qiu, the time had come to ten years later.

"Master, the time is the year 9780, and your ten-year dormancy has come to an end."

"It still feels like it's so fast." Lin Xu sighed again.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and there is no sense of reality at all.

Lin Xu left the control room and returned the same way, back to the mist-filled waterfall, and returned to the cabin.

Looking up at the top of the ecological dome above, the fusion artificial sun has been lit up.

The artificial sun, like the real sun, emits light and heat, maintaining the ecological cycle of this Qinling ecological circle.

Looking around through the ecological dome, it seems that beyond the ecological dome, it is still the original appearance of the Qinling Mountains, and the sky is still blue sky and white clouds.

But Lin Xu knew that all this was just the external scenery simulated by the ecological dome.

Ten years later, the real outside scenery can only wait for him to see it in person.

The power armor activated, and the clothes on Lin Xu's body differentiated into countless nanobots in the blink of an eye, combining into a close-fitting battle armor.

Plasma flames erupted from his feet, pushing Lin Xu towards the sky.

Soon, Lin Xu came to the edge of the ecological dome.

A gap appeared in the light curtain of the ecological dome, and Lin Xu quickly passed through the gap, followed by Miss Qiu.

The gap closed behind him, but Lin Xu didn't bother to look back.

He was completely stunned by what he saw.

Even if he had expected it, when all this was really presented in front of him, Lin Xu still sighed.

Ice and snow, boundless ice and snow cover the land.

There are no trees on the familiar Huashan Mountain in the distance, and the famous Changkong Plank Road and other scenic spots are also frozen by ice and snow.

The entire Qinling Mountains, except for the part that is enclosed in the Qinling Ecological Circle, are already dead silent.

The sun can be seen here in the Northern Hemisphere, but the sun that once hung high in the sky and brought light and heat to mankind now looks countless times smaller to the size of an orange.

It emits a slightly dim light and hangs above the sky.

Lin Xu knew that it was because it was too far away from the sun.

Compared to the sun, which emits light and heat, another celestial body now seems to be much larger than the sun.

It was a huge star hanging on the other side of the sky, occupying nearly half of the sky.

There are huge stars with red, brown, white and other colorful stripes on the surface.

"Is that, Jupiter?"

"Yes, we're passing through Jupiter." Miss Qiu replied.

"I remember, there's a museum on Jupiter, right?" Lin Xu suddenly thought.

That's what he thinks on the data, and he's always been curious.

"Are you going to visit?" Miss Qiu asked.

Lin Xu was stunned for a moment, completely unexpectedly that Miss Qiu would be able to hear the meaning of her words.

I feel that Miss Qiu is becoming more and more like a real intelligent life.

In addition to being relieved, Lin Xu nodded.

"Let's go check it out!"

The museum built on Jupiter, Lin Xu is still very interested.