Earth Era

The so-called living things are nothing more than some subsidiary bacteria living on a certain fine dust in this sea of ​​stars. It’s still the same sentence. When humans are in the earth age, the earth does not need human protection. Now, when humans are in the interstellar age, the solar system also does not need human protection.

Human beings... no matter what they do, they can only affect themselves.

At this moment, what appeared in front of Wei Feng was a dead solar system. It is still the same as it has been for billions of years. It has eight large planets. Many of these eight large planets have their own satellites. In addition, there are countless asteroids, comets, dwarf planets... Everything is the same except for one thing.

There are no traces of any living things here.

"No matter what stage we humans develop to, we humans will always be small compared to the universe." Wei Feng sighed, "This, this is really a despairing thing."

Ye Luo didn't speak, but the three-dimensional projection was quietly turned off by Ye Luo.

At this moment, Wei Feng no longer had any worries about the war situation in the solar system, and was replaced by a deep sadness. No, using sadness to describe this mood is not appropriate. It is more suitable to use words like "confusion" or "despair" to describe it.

Wei Feng walked to the porthole and once again fell into deep thought in front of the endless sea of ​​stars.

"Ye Luo, tell me, what is the meaning of the existence of us humans, no, all the intelligent life in this universe? What does it mean to this universe?"

"I can't answer your question, Captain." Ye Luo replied, "The answer to this question is not stored in my database."

Wei Feng nodded and said no more. After a long time, Wei Feng sighed and said, "It's time for me to hibernate, Ye Luo, see you in ten years."

"Okay Captain." Ye Luo responded. So Wei Feng once again made some relevant preparations and then lay down in the hibernation cabin. Before losing consciousness, Wei Feng had this thought flashing through his mind: "It's boring, it's really boring."

The Xinghai spacecraft is halfway through its journey. At this moment, the satellite wind is far away from Proxima Centauri. That is to say, Alpha Centauri C is only less than 1.2 light-years away, and Alpha Centauri A and B are still about 1.4 light-years away.

This means that in one hundred and twenty years, the satellite wind will truly reach the Nanmen II system. In fact, the position of the satellite wind at this moment is already close to the Oort cloud region of the system Centauri II.

Just like the solar system, in the early days of the birth of Nanmen 2 and 3, some remaining waste materials from making stars were expelled to the edge of the galaxy. Eventually, a weak belt of material extremely far away from the star was formed, eventually forming the Oort cloud belonging to the Australasia galaxy.

Wei Feng knows that exchange of Oort cloud material between different stars is possible. Because the Oort cloud is too far away from the stars, the gravitational influence of the stars in the local galaxy is too weak, which can easily cause them to escape from the local star system under certain accidental conditions and enter other star systems. among. That is to say, the Oort cloud material of the solar system may enter the Centauri galaxy, and the Oort cloud material of the Centauri galaxy may also enter the solar system.

Perhaps tens of millions or even billions of years ago. Some of this material broke away from the gravitational control of the Nanmen II galaxy and entered the solar system. It entered the solar system under the gravitational disturbance of the large internal planets, and finally hit the earth. Then in the long evolution. The materials that make up it eventually merge with the materials on the earth and can no longer be separated. They may eventually become food for humans on earth. The water we drink and the tools we use all participate in the ecological cycle of the earth, but no one can distinguish them.

This is the journey of matter on an interstellar scale, and their journeys can often be measured in millions or even hundreds of millions of years, but no one knows about these things, and no one cares about them.

The natural evolution process of the universe is quietly going on in places invisible to humans or other intelligent life, and it has never stopped.

During the long journey that followed for thirty years, Wei Feng woke up intermittently four more times. It was originally scheduled to wake up once every ten years. But in the middle of this, Wei Feng was awakened urgently again. Because a key module in the Xinghai spacecraft suffered a serious failure again. This failure caused the entire Xinghai spacecraft to almost lose its ability to decelerate. But thanks to Wei Feng's quick and appropriate handling, disastrous consequences were avoided.

At this moment, the distance from Proxima Centauri in the Centauri system is less than one light-year. Wei Feng once again woke up from his deep sleep, and the interior of the Xinghai spacecraft once again regained light and warmth.

"I have three things to report to you." Ye Luo said to Wei Feng, "The first thing is that five years ago, I observed an irregular interstellar stone with a diameter of about one meter. The Dharma shattered it and captured some of the material fragments of which it was composed.”

"Oh, really?" Wei Feng said, "The probability of encountering macroscopic matter in the open universe between stars is very small. Have you come to a preliminary analysis conclusion about it?"

"Yes, I have conducted a preliminary analysis on it, and the results show that it has a material composition that is very different from that of the solar system, which shows that it does not come from the solar system. According to my speculation, it should come from the South Gate II galaxy. ."

"Is there any evidence?" Wei Feng asked.

"There is evidence, but it is not solid enough." Ye Luo said, "We have only roughly speculated on the material composition of the Nanmen II galaxy through instruments such as spectrometers. According to my material analysis of this stone, I confirm that the material similarity between the two is as high as 89%."

Wei Feng nodded: "Then there is basically no doubt. This stone can basically come from the Nanmen II galaxy. Well, when you found it, what were its motion parameters?"

"Relative to different reference systems, it has different motion parameters. Here, I chose the Alphabet galaxy as a reference object. When I discovered it, it was moving along a circle with the mass point of the Alphabet galaxy as the center and a radius of The tangent line of the circle with a length of 1.08 light-years moves in a parabola. It is leaving the Centaur system. As for the end of its journey... I made a simulation diagram, captain, you can take a look."

Ye Luo once again projected a three-dimensional image, so Wei Feng saw two stars orbiting each other very close to each other, and a third star orbiting these two stars some distance away. . Further out, there is a small point orbiting these three stars. But its orbit is getting flatter and flatter, the distance between the far end of the orbit and the core particle is getting farther and farther, and the near end is getting closer and closer.

Wei Feng looked at it for a while and then said: "Its trajectory seems to indicate that one day in the future, it will break away from the gravitational pull of the two and three stars in the south gate and escape into interstellar space."

"Yes, if it is no longer affected by other factors during its operation, it will break away from the Nanmen II system in about 200 million years, and like this..."

Under Ye Luo's control, the small black dot in the three-dimensional projection stretched out a long line, and extended to another star next to it.

"...It will break away from the South Gate II galaxy and eventually enter the gravitational range of the sun. It will take too long, and I can no longer accurately predict its future orbit, but I think it will be 80% The probability will hit the sun." Ye Luo said, "This means that through the orbit calculation of this interstellar stone, we have basically confirmed that there is indeed an exchange of matter between stars, and The detailed mechanism of this matter has been determined. This is extremely important for our study of the solar system, no, not only the solar system, but also for our study of the early evolution mechanism of the stellar system and the interaction between different stars."

This matter can indeed be said to be an extremely important discovery, but Wei Feng feels a little uninterested in it: "If I can write a paper on this and publish it, I may get a certificate awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology." A trophy given to me for my contribution to this. But...what's the point?"

Wei Feng shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and then said: "Save these materials and all observation and research data for future research."

"Okay Captain, I will keep them properly." Ye Luo replied.

"By the way, Ye Luo, didn't you say there are three things you want to report to me? This is the first thing, what about the second one?"

Ye Luo was silent for a moment, and then said: "That's it. During this period of time, I observed a total of seven strong flashes from the direction of the solar system. Compared with the past, the frequency of this flash has not decreased, but has increased." Improved. This seems to mean that the war in the solar system has not only not stopped, but has become more intense."

"This war has been going on for decades." Wei Feng said with some emotion, the expression on his face quickly turned into a bitter smile, "This seems to confirm something from the side, that is the foundation of our human civilization. It’s really very profound… Without a profound foundation, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be able to sustain such a long and huge war.”

"But the second thing I want to report to you is not this." Ye Luo said.

"Oh?" Wei Feng expressed his doubts in one word.

"The second thing is... I not only observed violent flashes in the solar system, but I also observed somewhat similar strong flashes in the Nanmen Galaxy." (To be continued ~^~)