Earth Era

The letter Chu Hai sent to Wei Feng described it this way: "The energy collection instruments manufactured by several major mineral resources companies almost cover the entire atmosphere of Jupiter and Saturn. The long-term mining of hydrogen and helium elements has almost changed these two The atmosphere structure of two planets. Every day, heavy-duty carrier spacecraft loaded with fusion energy leave these two planets and fly to the inner solar system. However, the energy needs of the Earth, Mars, Venus life circle and Mercury heavy industry base are like a bottomless pit. , it cannot be filled no matter what. A survey report by the Ministry of Science and Technology pointed out that the average daily demand for fusion energy on Mercury alone has reached tens of billions of tons, and the average daily demand for fusion energy in the agricultural belt around Venus has exceeded Five billion tons.”

"Among the several habitable planets and satellites, the Earth is undoubtedly the number one. It has air that can be breathed freely without treatment, as well as countless beautiful scenery. Therefore, the Earth is the first to enter the fully loaded status. Now, the total population living on the earth has exceeded 50 billion, and the population of Mars has exceeded 20 billion. In addition to the two most important habitable planets, a large number of planets have been built in the inner solar system. Space living islands host a population of 10 billion."

"These three places have gathered almost all the elite groups in human civilization. Due to the increase in the cost of living and the increasingly fierce competition, a large number of civilians and poor people have to migrate to the outer solar system. The satellites of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune The satellites are developed as much as possible to carry more people. But the further away from the sun, the worse the living environment is. They also bear the heaviest labor, but the wealth they create is gathered in the inner solar system and cannot be used Improve your own living conditions.”

“When energy output reaches the upper limit, the government will inevitably require priority to ensure the energy needs of the living areas of Earth, Mars and space islands, and this will further reduce the quality of life of the population in the outer solar system, which accounts for 70% of the total population. Wei Feng, you know, this has become an irresolvable contradiction. No matter how hard the government tries, it can only ease the contradiction in the end. It cannot eliminate this contradiction. This contradiction will explode one day."

"Our solar system has really become an isolated island in this boundless sea of ​​stars. The resource output in the isolated island is limited, but the population has been increasing. We urgently need to get out of this isolated island. Go to a wider continent and seek more planet and energy sources, but our technology has never been able to achieve a breakthrough.”

Wei Feng left the laptop and walked to the porthole of the spacecraft. Looking at the boundless darkness outside the window, Wei Feng felt lost.

This result had been expected by Wei Feng for a long time, but when it actually happened, Wei Feng still found it difficult to accept it. That is my hometown after all. It's a place I will go back to one day.

Standing in front of the porthole for a long time, Wei Feng let out a long sigh, picked up the tools in his hands again, and began to repair the spacecraft.

More than a hundred years have passed, and during this period, the Xinghai spacecraft has not experienced any major malfunctions. Leaffall is also functioning generally well. The frequency of damage to various small parts and bugs is getting higher and higher, which means that Wei Feng has to devote more time and energy to the maintenance of the spacecraft.

After all, this is an old spacecraft that has been working for more than a hundred years... In the solar system, there must be no instrument that has the opportunity to work continuously for a hundred years.

Since the unknown alien civilization device passed by, Wei Feng has never discovered any possible alien civilization creation. Not only that. Even the natural objects that exist here have not been encountered. This is the area where the Oort cloud is speculated to exist, but the emptiness here exceeds Wei Feng's imagination.

Although no macroscopic objects were observed here, this does not mean that the existence of the Oort cloud has been overturned. The estimated total mass of the Oort cloud is less than the mass of the Earth. Spread this mass into a disk with a total length of more than six light years, and you can imagine how thin the matter here is. It's normal not to see anything here.

Wei Feng drove out of the Oort cloud area calmly. Completely left the solar system. This was originally a moment of great historical significance, but Wei Feng did not feel the slightest excitement in his heart, only the loneliness that penetrated his bones.

The two-way communication delay between here and the earth has been as high as two years, but because of the existence of several large antennas in the solar system, the satellite wind can still maintain contact with the earth. But this connection is getting weaker and weaker. When they were close at first, Chu Hai and Wei Feng often sent some video files. Later, they could only send sound files. Until now. Only text messages can be sent.

I'm afraid that if it goes further, the Xinghai spacecraft will lose the ability to send information to the earth. But based on calculations. The Xinghai spacecraft will not lose its ability to receive information from the earth. Even if it finally reaches the Nanmen II galaxy, the information sent by the earth can still be received by the Xinghai spacecraft.

Another ten years passed, and Wei Feng woke up again as promised. As Wei Feng expected, there were still letters sent from Earth. Perhaps it is because the government has forgotten the island project. In the past few decades, all letters sent from the earth were written by the time traveler team. The government has not paid attention to it at all. No instructions have been issued, and no instructions have been issued. There was no response to some of Wei Feng’s reports.

Wei Feng thought that the human world had probably forgotten the existence of the Time Traveler team. Being forgotten is not a good feeling, but Wei Feng didn't feel any emotion because of it. Because Wei Feng knew that being forgotten was the fate of the Time Traveler team.

"Wei Feng, I'm sorry that this time I'm still telling you bad news. The "Dead Knot" theory has also been confirmed. Before we go out of the solar system, there is really no way for our human civilization's technology to progress."

"I heard that this government has already intended to take measures to deal with the dead knot theory, and the head of state intends to concentrate on promoting large-scale exploration of the outer solar system to seek scientific and technological progress. But we are not very optimistic about the prospects of this plan. Because now The contradictions within human civilization have become very prominent. If we spend huge resources to explore the outer solar system, it will easily cause social unrest. I hope that our human civilization is lucky enough to obtain enough technology before the society finally collapses. "

"Well, by the way, many mission instructions are likely to be sent here after a while. The scientific research department may want you to do some preliminary space exploration to pave the way for subsequent large-scale operations." (To be continued~^~ )

PS: Today's state is really bad and I really can't write anything, so that's all... I'll rest for a night and I should be able to recover tomorrow.