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Chapter 552 The Sorrow of the Universe, Human Spark

"What's wrong Tanya?"

"Judging from the wreckage, she was crushed to pieces by a tsunami not long after she landed on this planet. She may have died a few minutes or dozens of minutes ago."

Chen Kun and Yuan Can forced themselves to get over the grief and resentment of the technician's death.

However, the crisis has not passed.

Because tsunamis will come again.

They had no time to waste, they had to troubleshoot the problem that occurred when they hit the surf as soon as possible, fix the problem, start the engine, and escape from the planet.

Accompanied by a soundtrack that sounds like drum beats and clock hands counting down, all the audience in the theater are eagerly anticipating.

A fiery shock wave sent the Star Seeker away from the roaring tsunami again, and it passed the top of the mountain in an exciting way.

"call……"

Sure enough, the so-called Plan A is just a cover. In fact, there is only the "Tinder Plan".

But the film did not give Chen Bo any breathing space.

Chen Bo, who was in front of the screen, completely broke his guard at this time, holding his daughter sitting on his lap and bursting into tears.

At this moment, he couldn't help but applaud the director's foreshadowing.

Chen Bo opened his mouth wide, as if he realized something.

The hatch of the Eternal's main control room slowly opened.

Yuan Can prefers to go to the planet that stopped sending information three years ago, not only because the data and information sent from that planet are better, but also because the astronaut exploring that planet is her boyfriend.

Fortunately, humans have developed the technology to artificially synthesize starch, but the rich variety of food will not be maintained.

Chen Bo leaned back in his chair, and his wife beside him also lost strength.

"Is he still alive?"

On the other side, on the earth, the sun is still slowly expanding, and the earth's environment continues to deteriorate. Even in high-latitude Siberia, the increasingly arid and harsh climate has caused the yields of even genetically modified crops to decrease.

The young man held up a photo of himself and a girl.

Therefore, Nini, who had a dispute with her brother, broke up with her last relative on earth and was kicked out of the old house.

"You have to face the reality of interstellar travel: that we must not think as individuals, but as a species..."

Nini was beside Wang Jinsong's bed. There was a tube in his nose connected to the machine and he was almost not breathing.

Chen Kun stared at that face and recognized that it was his daughter.

"I'm dying... I'm sorry, you need to know the truth... all these... years, all these people... counting on me..."

The silence on the spaceship is like a movie theater at this moment.

A middle-aged woman turned on the camera, and Nini's somewhat unkempt and haggard face appeared on the big screen.

The main reason is that plants and organisms have died out, resulting in a sharp decline in photosynthesis and an irreversible decrease in oxygen content. Even if humans have the technology to electrolyze water to generate oxygen, they cannot match the oxygen production capacity of the original earth's ecosystem in terms of cost and scale.

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Chen Bo heard his wife's sigh, and he fell into unspeakable emotions at this time.

"For years we've been trying to solve this problem without changing the underlying assumptions about time, which meant that each iteration of the calculation was just a ridiculous, recursive attempt to prove itself."

"teacher……"

Chen Kun just smiled and nodded with tears in his eyes.

Inspired by the old professor's lament about being afraid of time, Nini gained inspiration and re-examined her years of research, questioning Wang Jinsong with alert confusion.

But Chen Kun and astronomers are more inclined to another planet.

"Does he know? He knows, right?! He abandoned me, didn't he?"

Chen Kun has already walked into the communication room and closed the privacy curtain.

What caught the eyes of Chen Kun and Yuan Can, who had just taken off their helmets, was the astrophysicist who stayed behind on the Eternity with strands of gray hair.

The young man in his twenties once again came to the camera with an excited expression.

"You can't hear it at all. I know that all this information is meaningless. You will never come back. I have known this for a long time, so..."

Chen Kun's daughter is a scientist. She also works at the secret base of the space agency and becomes a student of Wang Jinsong, who is becoming increasingly senile. She studies the formula of gravity with the old man. The old man, who is now 80 years old, can only sit in a wheelchair.

Chen Kun leaned back.

"It's a bit too scary..."

"No." Wang Jinsong looked up weakly and looked into Nini's eyes, tears welling up in his eyes: "For so many years, I have told you to have faith... to believe..."

Information spanning twenty-three years began to be played out on the big screen one by one.

Seeing the other party's nod, Yuan Can closed his eyes in relief.

"Your father... they... have no reason to come back... they can't help us... because it's impossible to solve the gravity formula..."

As Chen Kun shook his head in tears, the unshaven middle-aged man closed the camera.

Although Wang Jinsong avoided the topic, Chen Bo, who had wiped away his tears and stopped his tear ducts, was once again keenly aware that the wise old man played by Wang Jinsong who formulated the entire space program seemed to be hiding something.

He held a tightly wrapped baby in front of the camera.

Following the sudden rise of the melody, Nini looked at the old man in front of her in confusion.

The seventeen-year-old son turned on the camera.

In front of the screen, Chen Bo's nose began to become clogged again.

Chen Bo has been able to determine that the real concept of this movie is not wormholes or black holes, or the exploration of alien stars, but time.

The adventure plot of this water planet is not long, or even very short, but the sense of urgency is basically full under the time difference setting of almost one second and one day.

The only three people left on the Eternity cannot continue to be immersed in sadness endlessly.

Chen Bo kept wiping the corners of his eyes, his vision sometimes blurred and sometimes clear, while his wife beside him was already crying like the hero.

"Dad, long time no see."

"My sister stole grandpa's car and crashed it, but she's fine...she studies very well..."

But even if his vague guess was verified, he still couldn't help but admire this old man who had deceived the entire human race.

At this time, some scenes and details from the first half of the movie came to Chen Bo's mind again.

But the choking sounds didn't just come from the big screen.

until the image reappears on the screen.

"Dad, we haven't talked for a long time because Xingxing's... Xingxing's funeral... has just been dealt with. Grandpa also passed away last week. We buried him in the backyard, next to mom and Xingxing..."

Chen Kun sat down slowly and cautiously, as if the communication screen might bite him.

Chen Kun faced the black screen in despair and helplessness, as if he had been abandoned by the world.

"I heard that the spaceship you are on is called Mi Xing. I also named your granddaughter Mi Xing, little Xingxing, and Grandpa..."

After part of the underground city was completed, humans began to gradually abandon the farmland and cities on the ground and began to move into the underground city one after another.

Plow, harvest, and persevere until the end of your destiny.

But Chen Kun's son insisted on sticking to the farmland and plantation work given to him by his father because he became an astronaut.

There has never been a moment when he could so clearly perceive what is the vicissitudes of life, what is the failure of watching chess, what is the white clouds and gray dogs, and what is the sorrow of the universe.

Faced with the impending crisis of despair, it is true that most human beings have chosen to continue to linger, but there are still some human beings who are no longer confused or entangled in the face of desperate situations.

Amidst the sobbing, the camera passed through Nini who was crying on the screen and returned to the earth.

Amidst the sudden noisy and surprised discussion in the theater, Chen Bo finally verified his previous guess.

After each digested and received twenty-three years of accumulated information from the Earth, the three of them discussed which planet to explore next.

"Teacher, you will be fine. I will definitely finish what you started."

The Eternal decided that the next target of exploration was the planet where the Commander of the Discovery was located.

The screen suddenly stopped, and the young man who returned to the camera looked to be in his thirties or forties, with an unshaven beard and a mature and haggard face.

"No, I lied to you..."

Yuan Chan blinked, shook his head, grabbed the hand of the slightly older astronomer, and looked up into his eyes, his eyes showing incredible vulnerability.

When her father was close to death, she missed her boyfriend more intensely than ever before, and out of pure intuition, she believed that the planet where her boyfriend was located was more likely to be a habitable planet.

"...how many years?"

The earth's atmosphere is constantly escaping. Human beings, who are strapped for resources, cannot have the luxury of maintaining the oxygen content of the entire atmosphere. They can only move humans into underground cities as much as possible to maintain the oxygen content in a limited confined space.

How this old man must have been suffering in his heart over the years.

Chen Kun was already crying.

Although the setting of one hour and seven years has been known for a long time, it is still a bit unbelievable and dreamlike when time is concretely placed before our eyes.

"Dad, I have a surprise for you. You are now a grandpa..."

"Even if I move into the underground city, it's just a matter of survival. Why is it necessary? I don't want to be a mouse that never sees the light of day. I don't want to pathetically wait for extinction as a mouse."

From here the movie enters a two-line narrative.

Being outside the sharp orbit of "Tianlu", Yongheng cannot send out any information and can only accept signals from the earth sent by the relay detector, including the video from Wang Jinsong.

Coupled with the ghost-like drum beats and the ticking sound of the clock, the already majestic audio-visual spectacle was elevated to a level that produced adrenaline almost throughout the entire process.

Chen Kun paused for a moment and looked greedily at the scene in front of him.

Chen Bo looked at the excited Nini on the screen, and felt sad in his heart, for the sake of the male protagonist, and for the countless light years and twenty-three years between them.

Two to one.

A few hours means missing twenty-three years, or even a person's entire life.

They resisted this damn fate by clinging to human pride. Since they were going to die sooner or later, they faced death with the lifestyle and identity of humans who have been living on the earth for tens of thousands of years. They refused to hide in cramped underground cities and eat.

A slimy, synthetic starch that doesn’t look like food.

In addition to sticking to his father's promise, his ideas can also represent some conservatives in mankind.

“…Today is my birthday… You once told me—you once told me that when you come back, I will be as old as you were when you left…and today I am as old as you were when you left…

…So…you should be back.”

Because the commander is not only the most capable and senior among the twelve pioneer astronauts, but also continues to transmit data. In contrast, the planet where Yuan Can's boyfriend lives has interrupted data transmission three years ago.

The tyranny of time magic is so great.

In the ward, Wang Jinsong, who had worked hard for gravity research and aerospace industry all his life, lay dying on the bed.

He once led eleven brave and fearless astronauts to explore the planet where the commander of the Discovery was located on this side of the wormhole.

Yuan Pan watched the video of his father's aging and struggling on the screen.

"I do believe..."

Time is the real theme of this movie, just like the idea in "Inception".

"It's been twenty-three years now... four months and eight days... I almost don't believe you will come back... I spend most of my time sleeping, but it seems that sleeping can't stop metabolism."

Is it actually impossible to study the so-called gravity formula?

"When you step into the universe, you must first face the reality: there is nothing in the solar system or on the earth that can help you..."

"I met another girl, dad, and I think she is my future wife, your daughter-in-law."

Chen Bo in front of the screen suddenly realized something - there were also the male protagonist's children and father-in-law.

Nini, who broke up with her brother, received bad news again and hurried back to the underground base of the space agency.

But the old man's cloudy eyes seemed to have penetrated the ceiling of the ward, passed through the endless space and decades of time, and saw the only remaining fire of mankind, the Eternity, which he had let fly and which he had deceived.

"No... don't... go into... that... that... good night... gently..."

The poem that ran through the two movies "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars" was once again read out intermittently by a dying old man, and it echoed throughout the theater.

And for some reason, he couldn't understand this sentence thoroughly in "The Center of the Earth" and "Mars". At this moment, the answer suddenly appeared in his chest.

(End of chapter)