Earth Era

This incident really made people feel a little hopeless, but Zhao Lan was still keenly aware of other possibilities.

Zhao Lan continued: "If we make inferences based on the two principles we established before, I think there is another possibility, that is, this super alien civilization did not actually affect so many celestial bodies at the level of the river system. What is affected is only our solar system. For example, they have created some kind of super barrier, covered the entire solar system with this barrier, and selectively blocked the light of certain celestial bodies. In this case, the level of civilization it requires will be much lower. , It is estimated that it may be possible to do it with a K2.3 level civilization. Well, for a K2.3 level, the most optimistic estimate is that there is a technological gap of about 5,000 to 8,000 years compared to our present."

"K2.3 level? I don't think there is any difference between it and K6.5 level civilization compared to us. Anyway, they are all super civilizations that we can't imagine and can't fight against. The gap between us is still the same. Enough to make us feel hopeless that what we've done is still meaningless."

"If all this is really caused by humans, that is, if there is a super alien civilization involved, what we have done is really meaningless. But I think the possibility of super alien civilization participating is very low. Because no matter what Both the K2.3 and K6.5 civilizations belong to the category of super civilizations. Even the relatively low-level K2.3 civilizations have the ability to sail thousands of light-years of space. The K6.5 civilization may have already broken through ours. The universe is gone, facing such a super civilization, an earth, or a solar system... what is it worth planning for them?" Zhao Lan said slowly, "I think we should keep our feet on the ground and continue to work hard. Under the premise of following the two principles put forward before, it is better to seek an explanation from the physical level."

"We're discussing too far." After Zhao Lan finished expressing his point of view, Zhang Hong stopped the topic from going deeper because it was obvious. It is meaningless to continue the in-depth discussion in the direction of super civilization, "I have to admit that the logic Zhao Lan said is reasonable. I decided to accept Zhao Lan's suggestion. The future research direction of our institute will be Look for "accidental factors" to get closer. As for super-civilized matters, everyone can just treat it as a pastime after dinner, and don't need to think too deeply about this aspect."

After temporarily abandoning the idea of ​​super civilization, the discussion atmosphere in the regular meeting regained a little enthusiasm.

"I think we should start exploring this matter from the differences between different stars." A researcher said, "Although many distant stars have disappeared from our field of vision, we should not ignore them. More stars that are equally far away from us are still staying there. If we can’t find the reason for the abnormal disappearance of stars, we might as well investigate why more stars are still staying there.”

"Maybe those stars that haven't disappeared are just because they haven't been affected and affected by that unknown reason for the time being. Maybe those stars will disappear after a while." Another researcher said in a joking way. Said in a tone.

"It's very possible what you said." Zhao Lan's tone was as serious and serious as ever: "We have to prepare for the worst, that is, all the visible stars that exist in the universe may one by one, all Disappear from our field of vision... In the not-too-distant future, there may no longer be any stars in our field of vision. No matter whether these stars are quasars billions of light-years away from us, or only less than five lights away from us years of Proxima Centauri, these stars may all disappear. Our skies will be dark and drab."

Zhao Lan's slightly sensational speech silenced the atmosphere in the meeting room again. After a while. A researcher forced a smile and said, "Zhao Lan, you are thinking too far away... Now we don't have any evidence to prove that the abnormal disappearance of stars will happen near us."

"No evidence doesn't mean it won't happen." Zhao Lan shook her head gently: "I noticed... the distance between those abnormally disappearing celestial bodies and us is constantly shortening... a month ago. The closest to us The anomalously disappeared celestial body is more than seven billion light-years away from us, and now, more than a month later... this number has been shortened to less than six billion."

"Okay, this is the end of today's regular meeting, everyone go back and rest." Before Zhao Lan could continue to speak, Zhang Hong interrupted Zhao Lan and announced the end of the meeting, "Zhao Lan, you want to go back Earth going to spend your holidays? Happy holidays in advance."

The meeting ended in a heavy mood, and the researchers dispersed in twos and threes, but Zhao Lan did not go to the dormitory area. Instead, they came to the spaceship parking area. Because starting today, Zhao Lan will have a ten-day vacation. So Zhao Lan planned to drive her small spaceship back to Earth and spend this rare vacation on Earth.

The work in the No. 105 Research Institute is too depressing and dull. The sense of oppression of watching the stars disappear one by one will always make people feel heavy without knowing it. Working in such an environment, there are still necessary means to relieve stress.

Zhao Lan entered the password, opened the door of the berth, and saw the spaceship New Silvia parked here quietly. Fortunately, this time Zhao Lan's spaceship did not disappear inexplicably like last time.

Zhao Lan was quite satisfied with the construction of the new Silvia spaceship. Compared with my previous spaceship, it has a more perfect and beautiful appearance, more powerful power and a more comfortable environment, and its interior and layout are also much better than the previous spaceship. With Zhao Lan's economic strength, it is impossible for Zhao Lan to own such a spaceship. So now Zhao Lan is not only not resenting Li Yunfan who stole his spaceship, but he is a little grateful to him deep in his heart.

"This can be regarded as a blessing in disguise." Zhao Lan thought so.

The spacecraft slowly left the berthing area, left the bright lights, and was constantly expanding, like an observation base on a huge construction site, entering the dark and cold space. The dim shadow of the earth can be seen faintly in the distance, and if the line of sight is shifted a little, you can see the moon, which is much dimmer than the earth, but still looks very bright against the background of the dark starry sky. The two spheres, one big and one small, constitute a quiet and quiet celestial system.

Zhao Lan fixed herself on the seat, and after setting the navigation parameters, the New Silvia spacecraft began to set off towards the earth. The Observation Base No. 105 in the rear was quickly swallowed by the darkness and was no longer noticeable. Zhao Lan and his own car once again entered a similar static state due to the absence of any reference objects.

The work during this period of time is really too busy and depressing. Zhao Lan is not a person who likes to abuse himself. Outside of work, Zhao Lan always relaxes when she can relax, so Zhao Lan is full of expectations for this vacation.

A slight sense of oppression told Zhao Lan that the Silvia spacecraft has entered the acceleration stage at this moment. Zhao Lan knew that this oppressive feeling would last for a while, until the spacecraft accelerated to a speed of 130 kilometers per second relative to the earth. After about eight hours of voyage, Zhao Lan will come to the earth port, and then return to the earth along the space-space interaction system on the earth.

Just when Zhao Lan was looking forward to the upcoming vacation, the communication system on the Silvia spacecraft suddenly received a message from an unknown source. Zhao Lan originally thought that this was some kind of harasser who didn't know how to find her latest contact information. There are many, and the way to strike up a conversation is also strange, which made Zhao Lan tireless.

Zhao Lan originally wanted to delete this message directly, but the content of this message caught Zhao Lan's attention.

"This is the Yuanwang spacecraft, the number of which is 238909DA7. I lost my way due to malfunctions during the expedition to Jupiter. If you can receive this information, please send me the relevant information immediately. The message was sent to Adventurer Rescue, and I desperately need help right now."

Obviously, this is a distress message. An adventurer encountered danger by accident during his privately piloted spaceship to Jupiter, so he sent this message for help.

Although human civilization has established cities on Mars that can survive for human civilization, the manned landing activities on Jupiter have not been launched. Because Mars is only more than 50 million kilometers away from the earth, and Jupiter is also more than 600 million kilometers away from the earth, which is obviously not an order of magnitude. Moreover, the environment of Jupiter and its satellite system is too complicated and chaotic. In order to ensure safety, although many unmanned probes have reached the Jupiter system, until now no human beings have actually landed on Jupiter. on the satellite.

But there has never been a shortage of adventurers in human civilization. These people may be because of their enthusiasm, or because they underestimated the difficulty of landing on the Jupiter system, or just to compete for the title of the first to land on the Jupiter system, they completely ignored the ban of the human civilization government and set off secretly, manipulating His own private small spaceship embarked on a journey to Jupiter.

Obviously, it was such a hapless ghost who sent a message to Zhao Lan now. (to be continued ~^~)