Earth Era

Wei Feng also felt the same about what Chu Hai said. If human civilization was at its peak in the previous stage, it is indeed on the decline now.

Human civilization has already experienced a peak period. That peak period was the national era hundreds of years ago. At that time, fossil energy supported the prosperity of human civilization. But the good times did not last long. With the growth of the total population and the gradual depletion of fossil energy, the peak period has passed. It was not until the controllable nuclear fusion technology was mastered that human civilization once again ushered in a new peak period. But now, the population is exploding again...

Wei Feng believes that there are two indicators to measure whether human civilization is at its peak, one is the total amount of resources that can be controlled, and the other is the total population. If the total population is constant, the greater the total amount of resources, the richer the material per capita. If the total amount of resources is constant, the lower the total population, the richer the material per capita will be.

So now there is a key question. Is the ratio between the population of human civilization and the total amount of controllable resources really out of balance?

From a macro perspective, the energy in the solar system can actually be considered unlimited, because the four planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune contain almost endless hydrogen energy. According to common sense, since humans Civilization has mastered controllable nuclear fusion technology, so human civilization should no longer be troubled by energy. But don’t forget that mining energy also requires costs, and the scale of energy mining cannot be expanded without limit. There is always an upper limit. After reaching this upper limit, it will be difficult for human civilization to increase its energy output again. .

At the same time, other limitations also exist. For example, restrictions on food production, restrictions on living area, etc. It is precisely because of these many restrictions that the total population that the entire solar system can carry is limited. After the population reaches a certain level, if you want to keep the per capita material needs from decreasing, then there is only one way out - colonization. Alien.

But if you want to colonize alien planets, you will encounter the problem of "dead knot". How to break this knot? Wei Feng didn't know.

Just like Chu Hai said. Time travelers have a unique advantage in observing the trends of human civilization. Through Chu Hai's description, Wei Feng also vaguely felt a hint of a brewing crisis. Wei Feng knew. These things that are now appearing in human civilization are just signs. They will inevitably continue to develop and become more and more serious. If there is no technological breakthrough, then... human civilization may return to chaos or even war.

This is caused by human development trends and is not dependent on individual strength. Even if a genius-like head of state appears in human civilization, as long as he cannot bring about technological breakthroughs. Then he cannot reverse this trend.

Wei Feng let out a long sigh and gave up his meditation. Wei Feng felt that there was a noose around the neck of human civilization at this moment, and it was quietly tightening as time passed by. If human civilization can find a way to open the noose before it hangs itself, then human civilization can be reborn. If it cannot be found, it can only be speculated that it may exist before it has left the home galaxy. Just like many extinct alien civilizations, they disappeared silently into this dark and cold universe. Until death, he will not be able to send out his own cry to the universe.

Wei Feng's heart suddenly moved. Because at this time, Wei Feng thought of the fragment of an unknown civilization he had discovered.

"It is very likely that this unknown civilization has opened the knot and found a way to travel at high speeds or even faster than light speed. If we can obtain more relics about them... maybe we can find enough technology to save our human civilization. . If this were the case, human civilization would not have to be troubled by this knot."

Wei Feng knew. All these ideas about the future fate of human civilization are just speculations. No one can verify the authenticity of these ideas except time. In fact, except for Wei Feng, Chu Hai and others, people living normally in the solar system would not have such thoughts. However, Wei Feng's sensitivity as a time traveler allowed Wei Feng to agree with these speculations from the bottom of his heart.

"Because we are time travelers, we can detect these trends. You are not, so you cannot."

"Since we have noticed this trend in advance, as members of human civilization, we have the obligation to do something." Wei Feng thought silently. "I will do my best to search for the remains of alien civilizations and the technological inheritance they may have left here. In order to help human civilization open this dead knot as easily as possible, this is what I can do."

"Ye Luo." Wei Feng called. Ye Luo's unique neutral voice immediately appeared in Wei Feng's ears: "Captain, what are your orders?"

Wei Feng said: "From now on, I grant you additional permission to fine-tune the route. In addition to ensuring the necessary amount of fuel required for outbound and return acceleration and deceleration, you can freely allocate the remaining fuel. These fuels are used for... …If you find a suspicious target in the distance, you can adjust your course to the target and take a closer look.”

"At the same time, four detectors are selected and modified, and then launched to the four directions of the spacecraft, left, right, up and down, so that they can maintain a relatively stationary motion with the spacecraft, so as to expand the spacecraft's detection field of view."

There is a reserve of detectors in the Xinghai spacecraft. These detectors were originally planned to be activated after Wei Feng arrived at the Nanmen II system, but now Wei Feng decided to activate them in advance.

"Okay Captain, do you need to report these matters to the Earth? You have independent authority over these matters, so you can decide whether you want to report them to the Earth."

Wei Feng hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "Don't report it to the Earth. This is my personal behavior."

Wei Feng can be sure that the earth will definitely not agree with his speculation, so he will definitely not agree with the things he has done. If that's the case, then just don't tell the Earth side, since they don't know what you've done here anyway.

"Okay, you need to complete the modification of the detector. I don't have the ability." Ye Luo said.

"No problem." Wei Feng agreed immediately.

During the more than twenty years of training, Wei Feng has mastered these skills skillfully. It is still possible to modify a detector. Therefore, in addition to daily recovery training, replacing damaged parts, and eliminating bugs accumulated during the operation of Ye Luo, Wei Feng had another job.

The modification of the detectors was completed after a month and a half, and they were launched by Wei Feng. Compared with the Xinghai spacecraft, their relative movement speed is very slow, only about ten kilometers per second. It would take about a year and a half to fly to a designated location at this speed. This time seemed long, but to Wei Feng it was nothing. Wei Feng didn't have anything else, so he had plenty of time.

After reaching the designated position, they will slow down and then maintain a relatively stationary state with the Xinghai spacecraft. The Xinghai spacecraft is moving forward at a speed of three thousand kilometers per second. They maintain relative stillness to the spacecraft, that is, they are also moving at a speed of three thousand kilometers per second. This is inertial navigation and does not require the consumption of additional fuel, but the detection instruments equipped on them can expand the field of view of the Xinghai spacecraft several times. In this way, the possibility of discovering the remains of extraterrestrial civilizations will naturally be greatly increased.

"Captain, I will complete the follow-up work of fixing the position of the detector. Now, it is time for you to hibernate." One day two months later, Ye Luo once again calmly issued a hibernation notice to Wei Feng.

"Okay." Wei Feng nodded, and after making some preparations, he lay down in the hibernation cabin again.

Still following the same process, the Xinghai spacecraft once again returned to the cold darkness. What is different from before is that there are four more small but powerful detectors in the four directions of the spacecraft, left, right, up and down, accompanying the Xinghai spacecraft forward.

Time passed slowly like this, until one day later, the life support system was turned on, various functional systems were turned on, and then the hibernation cabin was opened, and Wei Feng opened his eyes again.

Every hibernation was like dying and coming back to life. Every time Wei Feng woke up, he felt as if he had been sleeping for as long as ten thousand years. But this time it feels a little different. For some reason, Wei Feng felt that his sleep time seemed a bit short this time.

"Ye Luo, has ten years almost passed?" After regaining his ability to think, Wei Feng asked Ye Luo this question.

"No, Captain, it has only been six years since you last slept." Ye Luo replied, "The reason why I woke you up in advance is because I encountered an emergency. According to your settings, I didn't Authority to handle this incident on your own.”

"An emergency?" Wei Feng asked immediately: "What happened to you?"

"At a straight line distance of 700 million kilometers from the spacecraft and a vertical distance of 400 million kilometers, I received an unknown signal with unknown meaning." Ye Luo replied calmly, "If we maintain the current route, we will arrive at zero in about two days. Four hours later it passed by 400 million kilometers away from the signal source. How do you plan to respond to this event?" (To be continued~^~)

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