Earth Era

The Xinghai spacecraft is very large, with a total length of more than 200 meters and a height of almost 40 meters. It generally looks like a cylinder, but it is much richer in details. There are many uneven places where many detection and observation instruments are installed, and high-power and highly sensitive antennas used to communicate with the earth are also installed there.

The total mass of this spacecraft is more than 200,000 tons. Such a large spaceship can only accommodate one person. It’s not that human civilization doesn’t want to send a few more astronauts to accompany Wei Feng. The key point is that for every additional person, there must be one more person’s life-sustaining reserves, including food, drinking water, oxygen, temperature control equipment, and energy supply including hibernation boxes. etc. need to be doubled. This is something that the existing technology of human civilization cannot bear. Therefore, after many trade-offs, human civilization finally made the decision to send an astronaut to the Nanmen II system.

Although this decision greatly increases the risk - after all, if a person is alone for a long time, many psychological or physiological accidents will always happen - but human civilization has to bear this risk, and human civilization must face reality. compromise.

In the planning of human civilization, the entire island project is divided into two parts. One part is naturally the Xinghai spacecraft, which is controlled by Wei Feng, and the other part is located in the solar system. This segment consists of a research institute on Earth and eight large antennas located beyond the orbit of Mars. Each of these eight large antennas has a diameter of more than 200 meters. They orbit the sun at a stable speed. At least four antennas are pointed in the direction of the Xinghai spacecraft at all times. If the Earth has any instructions, people will communicate with satellite winds through these antennas. At the same time, the signals sent back by the satellite will also be received by these eight large antennas.

Wei Feng knew that after the Xinghai spacecraft was launched, these antennas would be the only link between him and human civilization.

After a series of complicated ceremonies, Wei Feng finally entered the Xinghai spacecraft and came to the control cabin. The control cabin is designed to look like a conference room, with a chair in the middle and a console in front of the chair. Wei Feng will control the entire spacecraft through this console and artificial intelligence "Ye Luo".

Ye Luo's voice was designed to be a neutral tone that could not distinguish between male and female. It's like the voices of young men and women who haven't gone through the voice-changing period yet. After Wei Feng sat in his seat, Ye Luo's voice came over: "Captain. Please give your order."

"Let's go." Wei Feng said numbly.

"Okay." Ye Luo replied, "I have received the navigation parameters from the Jupiter Port. Next, I will control the spacecraft to leave Jupiter."

Wei Feng felt a slight vibration, and then a force pressed him against the back of the chair. This power was not that big, so Wei Feng got used to the existence of this power after a while. Wei Feng knew that this was due to the overload pressure brought to him by the acceleration of the spacecraft. If nothing unexpected happens, this pressure will continue for three months. After three months of continuous acceleration, the speed of the Xinghai spacecraft will rise to 3,000 kilometers per second, and then it will stop accelerating and enter the inertial navigation stage. It will not start the main engine again until hundreds of years later. .

The Xinghai spacecraft has its own artificial gravity system. Of course, for today's human civilization, anti-gravity technology is still a fantasy. The artificial gravity on the Xinghai spacecraft is created through self-rotation. But this will bring about a very strange phenomenon. Regardless of whether Wei Feng looked to the left or right, he could see a wall with obvious curvature. Extend it all the way to the top of your head, and then close there. There is also a table above the head, which is Wei Feng's entertainment table. There is some equipment there for Wei Feng to spend his time. Those devices were placed on the table above Wei Feng's head without any fixation, but they would not fall down.

If Wei Feng wants to go there. Just follow the wall all the way there. When Wei Feng, Chu Hai and others first saw the Xinghai spacecraft, Chu Hai summed up the situation in a very concise sentence: "It's like we live in a steel pipe. Each tube wall has a gravitational force equivalent to that on Earth."

This is what creates artificial gravity through self-rotation.

After the spacecraft started, Wei Feng left his seat and walked to the communication station. While walking, Wei Feng had to lean forward a little to resist the ubiquitous inertial force caused by acceleration, just like standing on a bus that was accelerating.

The communication platform is still showing the scene of the press conference in Jupiter Port. The head of state held a grand press conference there to inform the entire human civilization of events related to the voyage of the Xinghai spacecraft. Follow the release process established in advance, after the spacecraft is launched. It was Wei Feng's turn in the spaceship to say something.

Wei Feng stood in front of the communication station, and the people in Jupiter Port saw serious expressions on the big screen. The unsmiling Wei Feng. Everyone calmed down and waited for Wei Feng to say something. Wei Feng had already prepared some heroic words to arouse the passion in people's hearts, but Wei Feng suddenly couldn't say those words.

After a long silence, Wei Feng said: "My compatriots... see you in nine hundred years. I will definitely return as promised and bring gifts from the Nanmen II galaxy to our human civilization."

Nine hundred years...that is a long and somewhat despairing length of time. Except for Wei Feng, everyone present would not survive that time. For them, this is the last time they see Wei Feng, and for Wei Feng, it is the last time they see them.

The previous warm atmosphere disappeared without a trace due to Wei Feng's words. Even the smiling head of state began to become silent. Because everyone knows what nine hundred years means.

In the silence, Wei Feng held back the tears that were about to flow from his eyes, and continued with a thick nasal voice: "I'm leaving, I hope everyone takes care."

"You should also take care." The head of state said as if he was telling a child who was about to leave home, "Be careful when you go out...be careful with everything. No matter what happens outside, you must put yourself first. , don’t take risks, as long as you can come back well.”

Wei Feng nodded heavily: "Please rest assured, Head of State, I will come back safely!"

The head of state solemnly raised his right hand to his eyebrows and saluted Wei Feng with a standard military salute. Following the movements of the head of state, everyone present raised their hands at the same time. Wei Feng held back his tears, stood in front of the communication station, and returned a standard military salute.

"So, goodbye."

"goodbye."

The communication station was closed, and Wei Feng left here and came to the porthole of the spacecraft, quietly looking at the huge gaseous planet in the distance and the few small black spots orbiting it.

The Xinghai spacecraft has been accelerating, and in the eyes of the satellite, Jupiter's shrinking rate has also been accelerating. Until Jupiter turned into a point of light and the details could no longer be distinguished. At this moment, five days have passed since Wei Feng left Jupiter Port. At this moment, Jupiter is the second brightest star in the satellite's field of view, the first bright star is the sun, and the third brightest star is Uranus.

When the satellite passed through the orbit of Uranus, people in the Uranus base sent dozens of spacecraft to escort the Xinghai spacecraft. They followed the satellite for millions of kilometers before gradually retreating. When passing through the orbit of Neptune, although Neptune was already far away from the satellite, the people at the Neptune base still sent more than a dozen spacecraft to escort the satellite, and they also followed the satellite for millions of kilometers. When they reached the orbit of Pluto, although Pluto was still far away from Wei Feng, Wei Feng still saw the escort spacecraft sent by the Pluto base waiting for him beside his forward orbit. But their number is even smaller, only seven.

When passing by the orbit of Eris, people from the Eris base sent a spaceship. When passing by the Sedna base, Wei Feng only received a message full of blessings, but never saw the escort spacecraft again.

Just like the territory of an ancient empire, the closer to the border, the weaker the control of civilization. This is the boundary of the solar system, and generally no one comes here except for scientific research needs. It is desolate, cold, lonely and sparsely populated. And such a place is just a journey for Wei Feng.

There are several scientific research bases further away from the Sedna base, and the scale of those bases is even smaller. Some bases do not even have permanent personnel, only some automatically working instruments. But beyond Wei Feng's expectation, no matter whether there were staff in the base or not, no matter how far away Wei Feng was from their base, Wei Feng would receive a sincere blessing when Wei Feng passed through their orbit.

But after Wei Feng got further away from the sun, there were no more blessings. There are no longer any large-scale bases here, there are just some detectors launched by human civilization that are constantly moving away from the sun.

Wei Feng knew that he had reached the edge of the solar circle, and soon he would officially leave the solar system. Wei Feng looked back and found that the sun was still very bright, but Wei Feng could no longer find the essential difference between it and the other stars. (To be continued ~^~)

PS: Wait for the second update, the rainbow is scratching my head...