Earth Era

When the average lifespan is only two hundred years, it takes nearly a thousand years to send an astronaut to Nanmen II and back from Nanmen II... Does this really make any sense?

If the head of state had not been firmly promoting this plan and constantly running to appeal for support, the isolated island plan would have been stranded long ago. To this day, Wei Feng still clearly remembers the sonorous and powerful words of the head of state in a speech: "Just like hundreds of years ago, when fossil energy was not exhausted, we had already begun to seek new energy sources to seek alternatives. Now, although we have not yet felt the urgency of interstellar navigation, we must start to seek breakthroughs in this area. Because interstellar navigation takes too long, wait until we feel the urgency before we start related It would be too late to do research.”

"The Academy of Social Sciences concluded after comprehensive research that the total population that the entire solar system can carry is 500 billion. If the population exceeds 500 billion, the comfort of survival will be reduced. The ultimate carrying capacity is about 800 billion. If it exceeds 500 billion, If we reach 800 billion, some people will freeze to death or starve to death due to lack of resources. And according to the current population growth rate, our population will reach 800 billion in at most 700 years. By that time …Where should our human civilization go? Reduce the total population through a war that sweeps the entire solar system? No, I believe no one will be happy to see this result. Then there is only one way out for us... That is, to develop into the outer solar system and seek more resources and planets to support the population of our human civilization."

"This universe has provided us with endless stars and resources, but if our civilization is in trouble just because we are complacent and comfortable...my compatriots, wouldn't you be ashamed?"

The will of the Führer finally prevailed, and the island plan was finally implemented. Although this time it is just a spaceship and one person, but... as long as it can send one person to an alien star system and then return smoothly, this means that one day in the future, human civilization will be able to send 100 million people, or even Ten billion people are sent to alien star systems.

Let human civilization spread among countless star systems, let human civilization spread its footprints throughout the third spiral arm and even the entire galaxy... This is the true era of interstellar development. Compared with such large-scale interstellar development, what does the development of just a few small planets within a solar system count?

Wei Feng is proud to be at the forefront of the times. Because Wei Feng knew that no matter whether his trip was successful or not, his name would be remembered by history, but at the same time, Wei Feng felt a little lonely and afraid. Because Wei Feng knew that what awaited him would be a lonely journey of nearly a thousand years, even if he finally returned from the Nanmen II system. Because of the thousand-year gap in time, everything I know will disappear. My favorite movies, favorite clothes, and favorite food will disappear and evolve into something I can’t understand. My own aesthetics, life concepts, and... My views on things will all fall behind me, and I will leave this era. But his thinking will always stay in this era, which is destined that Wei Feng will never be accepted by the new era a thousand years later. I... will become a person abandoned by the times.

This is the price that must be paid to leave a name in history. But Wei Feng was ready to pay the price. Because of Wei Feng’s life and all the education Wei Feng received. All are prepared for this mission. If this mission cannot be carried out, Wei Feng's life will lose all meaning.

Wei Feng and Chu Hai have been training at the Pluto base for thirteen years. During this time. Together, Wei Feng, Chu Hai and others learned knowledge about spacecraft maintenance, emergency rescue, Nanmen II, and how to deal with various dangerous situations. There are thirty-seven major categories and thousands of sub-categories. As expected by Wei Feng, Wei Feng's performance has always been far ahead of his classmates in assessment after assessment.

Wei Feng knew that every "excellent" on his report card meant that he was one step closer to the interstellar voyage, and it also meant that he was one step closer to the thousand years of loneliness. But Wei Feng had no other choice. Wei Feng's life trajectory had been doomed as early as that rainy afternoon when he was taken out of the orphanage as a child. Instead of staying on earth and overturning all his previous thirty years of life experience and starting over again, Wei Feng would rather be a person abandoned by the times after enduring this thousand years of loneliness.

After thirteen years of intensive training, the "Xinghai" spacecraft used to implement the isolated island plan completed the construction of its overall structure. So the training base for Wei Feng and others was moved from Pluto to the Jupiter shipyard. Wei Feng and others will spend the remaining seven years living on this half-finished Xinghai spacecraft and personally participate in the construction of the Xinghai spacecraft. In this way, you can become familiar with all aspects of the structure of the Xinghai spacecraft and learn how to operate the spacecraft.

Time slipped away bit by bit. The Xinghai spacecraft is becoming more complete day by day. Finally, after nine years—two years longer than scheduled—the Xinghai spacecraft was completed and passed acceptance inspection. Twenty-two years have passed by in a blink of an eye. The head of state who originally decided to implement the isolated island plan has long since resigned. His successor also resigned five years ago. The current head of state in power is the third since the implementation of the isolated island plan. The head of state.

The children who were babbling when that meeting was held are almost finishing their studies now. The students at that time should have already worked, got married and had children. During these twenty years, many people died and many people were born. I don't know how many joys and sorrows happened during this period, but all of them have nothing to do with Wei Feng, Chu Hai and others. For many years, candidate candidates for the Isolated Island Project such as Wei Feng and Chu Hai have been living under the strict surveillance of the government. The government strictly prohibits them from having any contact with the outside world, especially contact with the opposite sex of the same age. For candidates, family affection or love is a complete poison.

Because things like family affection or love will affect the minds of the candidates and waver their determination to perform the mission, which is very likely to lead to the failure of the mission. Although this approach is inhumane, it is what must be done under real circumstances.

This is why the candidates are all selected from orphanages. Because a "normal person" with a sound family, a complete social network, friends, relatives, and lovers probably cannot accept the consequences of being abandoned by the times.

The Xinghai spacecraft has finally been built, and all supporting facilities have been built, so the day of departure is not far away. Although Wei Feng is still strictly restricted in his scope of action, his treatment at the Jupiter Shipyard Base is much better. Wei Feng could finally take a long nap comfortably, and then enjoy the life of opening his mouth with clothes on his hands. This obviously meant that the government felt guilty to some extent. Wei Feng knew that the government probably planned to use this method to compensate itself.

When the final list was finalized, Wei Feng saw his name without any surprise. Wei Feng had been waiting for this moment for many years, but when it actually arrived, Wei Feng couldn't tell what it felt like.

On the day of departure, many people came to the launch base. Not only were all the influential media reporters from all civilizations, but even the head of state himself came here in person. Wei Feng was put on a military uniform like a puppet, and then the head of state personally put an epaulette symbolizing the title of "General" on Wei Feng's shoulder. Many people were talking, many flashlights were flashing, and many recording devices were stretched out in front of Wei Feng, but Wei Feng's expression remained stiff and he did not say a word.

Wei Feng knew that at this moment, among the more than 200 billion people in the entire civilization, at least 100 billion people were watching the broadcast and looking at his face. Wei Feng tried hard to soften his expression, but Wei Feng's face was already stiff and he couldn't do it no matter what. After trying hard for a while, Wei Feng simply gave up this plan.

"Anyway, after I come back, everyone at this moment will be dead... It doesn't matter whether I left a good impression on them or not." Wei Feng thought this way.

There are still five hours until the final departure time. At this time, Wei Feng was allowed to spend half an hour alone with the person he wanted to see. Wei Feng thought for a long time and couldn't remember who he should be alone with, so he simply said Chu Hai's name. Chu Hai was quickly taken to the room, but Wei Feng didn't know what to say.

In the end, it was Chu Hai who spoke first: "Wei Feng, I just received a notice that after you set off for Nanmen II, the support work in the solar system will be taken care of by the unsuccessful candidates like us."

Wei Feng smiled stiffly, still not knowing what to say. Chu Hai then continued: "We people will adopt the same hibernation arrangement as you. After your "hibernation", we will also enter "hibernation". You will be awakened once every ten years, and we will also be awakened every ten years." Awakened once a year.”

Chu Hai sighed, "In other words, when you come back after a thousand years... we will all still be alive. By then... not only you will be abandoned by the times, but also us."

Chu Hai stopped talking, and Wei Feng also remained silent. It wasn't until half an hour passed that Wei Feng stood up, hugged Chu Hai, and then turned around and left.

Wei Feng knew that the next time he would see Chu Hai would be almost a thousand years later. (To be continued ~^~)

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