01 Chapter 1 (1)

It is a very fortunate thing to live in the second-tier star field, every day, monthly, and every year, you live a simple and comfortable life, you only need to send the materials collected on the resource star to the assembly point, and then, far away from there, return to the home planet to enjoy life, or return to the resource star to transport goods. Of course, if you're interested in seeing the performance art of intelligent creatures, you can park your spacecraft three light-seconds (900,000 km) away from the assembly point and wait for the teleportation to begin.

When the rally point stocked up with supplies worthy of a launch, the huge wheeled launcher was set into operation.

The wheeled launcher with a diameter of one thousandth of a light second (300 km) is shaped like a large basket, the mouth of the basket is facing the direction of the destination, like the muzzle of a cannon, and the bottom of the basket is hoarded with "gunpowder" - that is a huge amount of energy that is constantly running, and the target materials are piled up in the middle of the basket. Once the launch begins, the energy accelerates the material to be transported and launches it in the direction of the high-speed spin "basket mouth" calibrated in the direction of the cannonball, like a cannon ejecting its chamber.

The moment of launch is a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle, first of all, a burst of bright light bursts out from the middle of the basket, which is a strong light that can penetrate all objects within two light seconds, and the space within three light seconds will be dyed flawlessly pure white, like a drop of thick cream suddenly dripping on a pure black canvas. Then, a circle of oscillating ripples rippled slowly from the center of the basket mouth, expanding at the speed of light, sweeping over everything within five lightseconds until it faded without a trace.

At this point, the short and shocking launch was over, and everything happened in a split second. History books say that when this device was first born, people did not dare to approach the device within ten light seconds, and the spacecraft at that time would be blown into elementary particles by the oscillating waves.

Three thousand years ago, the most popular pornography** broadcast her last live performance four light-seconds away from the assembly point, and afterwards, she said, that kind of shock is so cool! Every cell in the body, no! Every molecule and atom is dancing! All are spasms! Human beings can no longer produce comparable oscillators! That is an insurmountable pleasure!

Since then, the ** suffers from sexual frigidity, no one can satisfy her, she tries to get close to the assembly point again and again, pursuing, catharsis, and indulging her desires, and finally, when she gets close to the assembly point three light seconds away, even the people and the spaceship instantly turned into dust.

The device has been around for thousands of years, and almost no one remembers how it came about, except for a few citizens who, on a whim, went to the central database to check the history. People are only remembered for their own task - to collect specific supplies and load them into "baskets" within a certain amount of time, a task that has been the only goal of civilization for thousands of years.

And in the place where the ** preached for desire, that is, three light seconds away from the "basket", generations of young people held their or them, or their and their coming-of-age ceremonies there, which became an inexplicable custom.

The Tekgaard resource carrier, passing through the dark space dotted with silver stars, this is the third deceleration after its sailing, it will slow down for thirty consecutive days, using the nearest star at the distance of a light moon in front of it, to carry out a high-dimensional journey.

The star is an essential resource for space travel, its force field can be used to direct itself into an efficient direction, and its energy is the best driving force for acceleration. Almost every star is a necessary take-off and deceleration point for a spaceship in a civilization.

The captain of the transport ship Trkgaard worked day and night, while the first mate, Margaard, was very leisurely. His bedroom is decorated in a crisp sea blue, and the floor is covered with water glue up to three feet thick, which is a very dense liquid, light blue, with enough surface tension to support an adult man, not to mention buoyancy, this thing is cool and warm, and has no irritation or harm to the skin and body, making it an ideal bed for people.

Ma Gaode was lying on his back on the water glue, under the light blue ceiling, a three-dimensional holographic picture was playing in the middle and upper space of the bedroom, Ma Gaode gently held his left hand into the air, and a light green water ball appeared in his palm, floating in the air.

This is his favorite "fragrant moon juice", it is a plant extract on the 22nd resource star, fragrant and mellow, clear and long, suck a mouthful, swallow it, the cool and fragrant liquid flows through the digestive tract, the soft liquid touch is very refreshing, and then, the endless fragrance floods the throat, the mouth, and finally rises into the cranial cavity, for a while, as if the entire upper body is assimilated by this grass juice, becoming the most fragrant. The purest being......

Ma Gaode held the fragrant moon juice to his mouth, greedily and cautiously sucked it, and every time he sucked, he had to close his eyes and enjoy it for a long time. Three-dimensional holograms in the air were the subject of Magaud's greatest interest—the history of theology.

The history of theology is the history of the Pearl civilization, this civilization does not have a long evolutionary origin, it appeared very abruptly on the home planet Pearl Star, in just a few hundred years to establish a mechanical civilization, a thousand years with the initial astronautical ability, the basic source of all this is mysterious, only miracles can be explained, and miracles are indeed accompanied by every scientific and technological breakthrough of the Pearl civilization, therefore, the history of theology has become the official history of the Pearl civilization.

In the consciousness of all the Perles who still have the impulse to think, the biggest question is where we come from and where we are going! And the latter is more important than the former, for more than 3,000 years, the Perls have faced this invisible disaster: the miracle no longer patronizes them, and the last miracle they get is the device that sends materials to the unknown distance, the device was not built by them, and they can't even simulate it until now, it is the product of the previous civilization level!

The surface of the rally point launcher is clearly notched, the inscription is the Perlsian's own words, and the final metaphor is clearly written: Use the technology I have provided you with to obtain radioactive minerals, food, and strange objects that cannot be recognized...... , and send the above materials here.

The Pearl people have been working according to the myth for thousands of years, they don't know where the high-level civilization that cultivated them came from, and they don't know where these materials are sent, they can only guess a vague answer in the information left by past miracles: the Pearl civilization is in the most extensive alliance, the alliance is engaged in a brutal war with the enemy that has lasted for hundreds of millions of years, the Pearl civilization is in the second-tier star field, and the first-line star field full of death and destruction is different, they are specially cultivated "logistics supply" type civilization, looking for, Gathering materials is the only mission of their civilization.

However, although the Pearls are still working without regrets, as an intelligent race, they still crave more knowledge, they do not expect to be able to control their own destiny, they only want to be able to understand their own destiny, they only need one answer: meaning! What is the meaning of their civilization?!

Ma Gaode's consciousness floated in the charming aroma of Xiangyue juice, he felt that this could be his own mind more agile and elegant, he thought about the many miracles that had been ripe again, hoping that good luck would come to him, and he could find clues that his predecessors had ignored, and the result was that he had learned nothing, hey, dozens of generations of words that have been studied hundreds of millions of times, and even the meaning of each comparison has been analyzed, if he can come up with new clues, it will be a ghost!

The smell of fragrant moon juice gradually faded, and Ma Gaode's consciousness fell back to the world, and he put aside all those miracles, missions, and meanings, and thought of his journey, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile.

It is the duty of every citizen of the Pearl civilization to drive a transport ship to deliver supplies to the assembly point. With the expansion of the Pearl civilization for thousands of years, its influence covers seventeen third-level galaxies, six home-type planets, four production-type planets, and more than 5,000 resource stars. When each Pearl citizen becomes an adult, he must carry three ships of supplies to the assembly point with the ship, and after the three ships are full, he can choose a favorite home star, get a picturesque area, build his own home, and never have to go to the interstellar world again.

The Pearls, on the other hand, did not have full citizenship without a full three-ship shipment, and they did not have their own independent family area, so they had to choose to live in the home of another full citizen.

Margaard and his younger brother Maqi are orphans who grew up living in the home of Citizen Card, and although Carder is a good man and treats their brother well, who wouldn't want to have a home of their own?

It is not an easy task to transport supplies three times, and with the space technology of the Pearl people, it often takes more than 30 years for a transport ship to go back and forth between the assembly point and a certain resource star, which is one-tenth of the life span of a Pearl person! Three round trips will consume a hundred years of life. But for the Pearls, it's not the lives that are lost, it's the long interstellar solitude......

This is the third time that Ma Gao sent supplies to the assembly point, and it is also the second time that his younger brother Ma Qi has delivered, thinking that he is about to have a beautiful dream home, Ma Gao smiled like a flower, using the star in front of him to complete the high-dimensional travel, home, this distant dream of the year is about to become a reality!