Earth Era

Darkness and silence tightly wrapped Zhao Lan and the others like ghosts everywhere. There is no sky, no earth, nothing here, just emptiness.

Such an environment can bring a lot of pressure to people. Under this kind of mental pressure, coupled with the ever-increasing carbon dioxide concentration and the ever-lowering temperature, people can easily suffer a mental breakdown, or fall directly into a deep sleep and die. At this time, talking and chatting are the best and most economical way to deal with it. Because speaking requires mobilizing the brain to organize language and logic, and also activates the brain's memory area, which is very beneficial to stabilizing the mind and improving psychological endurance.

After Zhao Lan asked the question, he began to wait quietly. After a moment, An Liya replied: "Actually, there is nothing to say... I, Keyboard, and Bald Man are all orphans. We grew up in an orphanage. Then the boss took us away and taught us all kinds of knowledge. We do all kinds of training... We naturally formed a team with the boss. The name Adventurer Team was later chosen as a joke, and it has been called that ever since."

An Liya's voice was a little stumbling when she spoke, but overall it was smooth and her logic was very clear. This shows that Anriya is doing well. So Zhao Lan turned to Cruz and asked: "Bald man, you should be about the same age as An Liya and Zhou Xiaoming. Why do you look so old? All your hair is falling out."

Cruise said bitterly: "You ask me, who should I ask? If I can find my father and mother, I would also like to ask them why they made me look like this so that every girl I like looks like me. It’s like looking at a toad.”

An Liya sneered at this: "Bald man, you are obviously lazy, lack of exercise, smoke and drink alcohol, and stay up late and stay up late to end up like this. If your parents are to blame for this, your parents are too unfair."

Zhao Lan wanted to comfort Cruise with a few words, but at this time Zhou Xiaoming, who had been unconscious for a long time, suddenly moved. Then there was another seemingly meaningless sound. Zhao Lan's mood became increasingly heavy.

This sound also caused the maintenance cabin to fall into silence again. Thinking of Zhou Xiaoming's condition, several people were filled with worry. But there is no way here.

But remaining silent like this won't work after all. An Liya obviously knew this too. So after a moment of silence, An Liya asked: "Zhao Lan, you know more about this universe, can you tell me, if no one comes to rescue us, if we keep drifting like this... Where will we end up?"

Zhao Lan thought for a moment and then replied: "Our current speed has far exceeded the speed of the third universe. This means that the gravity of the solar system can no longer restrain us. We will directly leave the solar system and sail to the endless To the stars. As for where we will go..."

Zhao Lan tried hard to think about the navigation route map he had learned before departure. He made a brief calculation based on the orbital parameters and the relative positions of the stars he knew, and then replied: "We will leave the solar circle in about four years. , reached the top of the heliosphere, and passed by Sirius about 24,000 years later. Well, although it passed by, the distance from Sirius was about one light-year... In the future... we will probably reach the Crab Nebula. Right. The distance between the Crab Nebula and us is 6,500 light-years, and it will probably take us more than 15 million years to sail there... It’s impossible to estimate any further. The distance is really too far.”

"Can we leave the galaxy?" Cruise asked immediately.

Zhao Lan thought about it and then replied: "Probably not possible. We are not fast enough to break away from the gravitational pull of the Milky Way. Even if we can escape from the Milky Way, it will take hundreds of millions of years... to reach the nearest river system. , it will take billions of years.”

"This universe is so damn big." Cruise swore in a graceless manner, "In hundreds of millions, billions of years, we just traveled from one river system to another. God knows what Will the earth still exist at that time? Will there be human civilization?"

Zhao Lan also sighed softly and looked out the window. Although he couldn't see anything, Zhao Lan still looked at it dreamily.

The vastness and nothingness of the universe makes people feel despair from the bottom of their hearts. What is the Milky Way compared to this universe? What is the solar system? What is the earth? What is the meaning of this struggle that I am currently engaged in and all that I have done? Anyway, it is just the life and death of a tiny civilization on a speck of dust. What does it matter if it eventually dies? Anyway, if you exhaust all your life, or even exhaust all the wisdom, energy, and time of an entire civilization, you may not be able to understand the eventuality of this vast universe... What is the meaning of all this existence?

The absolute void, quiet darkness of the universe is the best time for contemplation. At this moment, Zhao Lan's thoughts drifted far, far away. Now Zhao Lan even feels that in the past, he really shouldn't be so obedient and step-by-step. He should really try everything he can.

This seemingly indulgent thought is not the same as the regrets of many things not being done on the hydrogen bomb spacecraft. Now Zhao Lan is thinking a little deeper. Because Zhao Lan discovered that compared with this universe, his life seemed to be purely irrelevant and meaningless. All morality, law, beauty, and emotions were meaningless.

In this case... why should we pursue other people's admiration or our own inner satisfaction? Why not give up all this and simply pursue physical pleasure? Drunk and dreaming, singing and singing every night?

Reason was telling Zhao Lan that this was wrong, but in this dark and void space, Zhao Lan's thoughts were not affected by his reason at all.

Zhao Lan felt that his breathing was a little short, his head was a little dizzy, and he seemed to be out of breath. At this moment, Zhao Lan suddenly felt the crisis, so he immediately adjusted his mentality, threw those unreasonable thoughts out of his mind, and at the same time calmed down and gathered his energy, so that he felt better.

All of this is completely subconscious and relies entirely on the survival instinct to do these things. After waking up, Zhao Lan remembered what he had just thought, and couldn't help but feel a sense of ridicule in his heart: "I was thinking just now that everything in life is meaningless, but when I sensed the danger, I immediately involuntarily took steps to survive. Measures to preserve this "meaningless" life and body."

"Perhaps we live more by instinct. Our body's instinct tells us to avoid danger, strive to gain praise from others, strive to gain more social wealth, and strive to pursue our own inner satisfaction and tranquility... Although spiritually I know that all this is meaningless, but the spirit cannot defeat the instinct after all.”

An Liya's words once again broke the silence: "Bald man, why are you trembling?"

Cruise shivered and said, "I'm cold."

When Cruise said this, Zhao Lan also felt the bone-chilling chill constantly eroding his body.

The maintenance cabin has lost its temperature control system, which means that the temperature inside the maintenance cabin is constantly escaping into space in the form of radiation. This is an irreversible process, and Zhao Lan and others also have nothing to do about it. The only thing they can pray for is to get rescued by the military before they are frozen into ice or poisoned by carbon dioxide.

Zhao Lan glanced at the timer and found that the time was almost up, so he fumbled for the threads and connected them. The maintenance cabin immediately returned to brightness, but after a moment, Zhao Lan separated the wires again, and the maintenance cabin became dark again. Zhao Lan repeated this, and on the sixth time, the simple transformer suddenly burst into flames, and then went out instantly. When Zhao Lan connected the wires again, there was no movement from the lighting.

So Zhao Lan said: "The distress signal has been sent, let's wait for rescue."

In fact, few people had no definite answer as to whether they could wait for rescue. Because the navigation trajectory of the military spacecraft is only obtained by rough manual calculations, this means that errors are likely to occur. It is very likely that the military spacecraft's sailing speed increased or slowed down a little, or its sailing direction changed a little. Even if the military spacecraft entered the predetermined range according to calculations, it did not notice anything here at all. The flash ignored this place... all of this is very likely to happen.

But no one mentioned this. Zhao Lan thought that it would be better to die in hope than in despair.

Zhao Lan was still trying hard to find topics to talk to An Liya and Cruise, trying to stay awake in this way, but Zhao Lan felt that even his brain was starting to have trouble functioning. Some calculations that used to be easy to do mentally Data, now thinking hard but still can't get the answer. Even the addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers requires careful thinking for a while before being able to calculate them.

I don’t know how long it took, I don’t know how long I drifted. When both Cruise and Anlia fell silent and stopped talking, Zhao Lan also reached the critical line of falling asleep. Zhao Lan thought that dying without pain seemed to be a good choice.

But just when Zhao Lan was about to fall into sleep, Zhao Lan suddenly saw a flash of light outside the maintenance cabin. (To be continued ~^~)