Deep Space Fleet

"These batches of children are really lucky. Field trips are much more interesting than talking on paper."

Chen Zheng recalled his childhood, cosmology education could only look at the starry sky by the window, how can it be as interesting as it is now, and he can travel to alien planets...

Cosmology is a necessary course for members of the new human civilization in elementary and middle school, and it is more popular than Chinese and mathematics.

Of course, due to physical limitations, it is a great pity that everyone can only look out in space during this trip, or experience the magnificence of the planet and the culture of the local civilization through robot VR equipment.

Many teachers are reading the "Alien Civilization VR Tourism Disciplinary Code", including but not limited to "do not disturb the life of native civilizations, abide by the customs of indigenous civilizations, observe discipline, and do not make aggressive or discriminatory actions... ..." Wait a long list of regulations.

This series of humanistic activities has reached a series of agreements with Taipu Civilization. Today's Tep people can confirm that humans came here to play, and they wish humans would ask for more, so that they can get more trading points. Various countries have allocated some natural parks and large museums, and even forced some unknown stars to perform their own civilized programs.

"When I think of using VR equipment, I feel that there is a little less meaning."

"Come on, this is already very good, if the body lands on the planet, you have to lie on the ground."

"Let's go, let's fly out and see the whole planet." Lu Tao patted his good buddy on the shoulder.

There is a large group of classmates behind, laughing and joking, some of them are couples. This is their graduation trip, after which they will officially enter the society, and there will not be so many opportunities to play around.

After entering the society, it is completely different from the life of the student days. After entering the society, they will officially start working. During the interstellar voyage, they will take turns to hibernate. Only when they arrive at a new planet, will all the staff wake up and carry out spaceship reorganization.

If the sobriety period is different, relatives and friends will not be able to see each other for a long time.

This is something I never realized when I was a student.

Children have troubles of children, and adults have troubles of adults. No society is perfect. Where does a strong civilization come from if everyone is unwilling to work?

In this way, the crowd was divided into two groups, one group experienced robot VR equipment, and the other group was preparing for spacewalking.

"Let's go, it's our turn." Lu Tao put on his power armor and said in the earphone with a little anxiety.

Spacewalking is an important part of training space engineers. As tourists, they are only here for sightseeing and do not have any special tasks. It can be regarded as the first time in their lives that they have come into close contact with the planet.

With a slight vibration of "click", several people passed through the last airlock door, and immediately saw the huge light blue planet.

Looking down from this angle, a planet is really too big and incredible!

It just floats quietly in the dark universe. There are too many blue planets like this in the universe, but it does not affect the loneliness of this universe.

A girl's voice suddenly rang through the earphones: "When I was young, I always had a question. Why wouldn't the planets floating in the universe fall?"

"Haha, this question is so stupid... Falling? Which direction will it fall?" a boy asked.

"Falling is falling! Just like walking, if the feet are suspended in the air, won't you fall? Where did you think so much when you were young, didn't you think about it?"

"Of course not, you are so stupid!"

The number of people talking and chatting gradually decreased. Chen Zheng took a deep breath, and the strong sense of excitement disappeared, replaced by a very strange loneliness. Although he majored in space machinery, he often spacewalked, but it was the first time Facing such a big planet.

He didn't know where this feeling of loneliness and desolation came from, and why it was born...

This kind of extravehicular power armor has a joystick device driven by gas. Whenever the astronaut wants to move in a certain direction, gas will be ejected from the corresponding position to make the astronaut move. Since it is only for civilian use, the maximum speed provided by this device is three meters per second.

In front of a planet, a person is really like an ant, no, just a paramecium.

And the planet is just a drop in the ocean in the universe. Each of these living planets is separated by more than a trillion kilometers. Even if they know each other's existence, there is a high probability that they will not be able to communicate with each other. How lonely it is.

After all, everyone is a college student, has received a lot of cosmic education, and soon recovered from the original lonely mood.

"The focal length of the telescope on the helmet can be adjusted, and you can see things on the ground! Our VR spaceship for elementary school students seems to be flying down..."

"I found the tallest building on the planet!"

Using the telescope that comes with the power armor, you can clearly see various things on the surface of the planet.

Everyone began to keep looking for interesting buildings on the surface. Here is the airship base, there is a factory, and there is a large swimming pool in that area...Tep people like swimming very much, and there are many large swimming pools built.

Also, that one is the largest river on the planet. Due to the huge ocean and humid climate, the flow of this big river is three times that of the Amazon River on Earth.

That piece... is the 10,000-meter plateau created by the enlightener civilization!

Suddenly, a girl said: "Do you feel that the entire planet is a bit like a large living body, with endless rivers and all kinds of life... It's just that this life has no self-awareness, but instead constitutes this world. The cells of the body, have self-awareness."

"You're talking about Gaia consciousness, right? I have studied this aspect in particular, and even wrote a science fiction novel about it..."

"Really, what content?"

Chen Zheng said with a smile: "In my novel, there is a 'group consciousness' character who looks like a dog, but they need several 'dogs' combined to produce consciousness. If the 'components' are separated , there is no consciousness, Gaia consciousness is similar to this combination, but the scope is wider... Haha, can you understand?"

"Hey, but is there really such a life form in the universe?"

The girl said: "Even if there is, it is difficult for us to understand such creatures."

"It should be a life form that is one dimension higher than ours in time series. Our whole life is just a moment of it. We have emotions, but it...should not have emotions."

Chen Zheng suddenly thought of something, and made a sudden realization expression: "You are wrong, this kind of creature is easy to understand. In fact, we are not the protagonist of the universe, it is the protagonist of the universe."

Yes, flowers and trees, humans and animals, everything will wither, but this life will not. As long as the individual exists, it exists.

This life only exists in concepts, and its official name has only two words——

"civilization"!

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