Earth Era

Wei Feng had heard many stories of survival in desperate situations. In those stories, the protagonist had to eat many strange and even disgusting things in order to survive, but... that was not the cruelest time. The most cruel environment is that you don't even have to eat those weird and disgusting things. In order to survive, you have to start eating your own body. Even if you know that you are drinking poison to quench your thirst, you have to continue.

There is nothing unnecessary on an interstellar spacecraft. Since it is placed on this spacecraft, it must have its own use. Although Wei Feng didn't know what kind of difficulties this huge spaceship encountered that caused it to start devouring itself, Wei Feng could imagine the despair and cruelty of that situation.

Once the propulsion device is eaten, the spacecraft will have no ability to navigate autonomously. If the communication device is eaten, the spacecraft will be unable to communicate over long distances. If the navigation device is eaten, the spacecraft can't go anywhere. If the life-support device is eaten, life can only choose to hide in the hibernation cabin and never come out... All of this is a fight against time.

After a long time, Wei Feng finally discovered it, but that life had died a long time ago.

After a long battle, it finally failed and was completely defeated.

"This is our universe." Wei Feng sighed, "When you can't get food, you can only choose to devour your own body. When your body is eaten, you can only wait for death in despair. "

"This is how the universe is. It treats every civilization equally. Just like us, haven't we also lost a lot of fuel, causing us to never be able to return to the solar system?" Ye Luo said.

These words made Wei Feng feel sad. Perhaps Ye Luo's emotional program noticed the inappropriateness of his words, so Ye Luo continued: "I'm sorry, Captain, I shouldn't have mentioned this matter."

"It doesn't matter." Wei Fengqiang smiled, "I'm just curious. Hundreds of millions of years ago, when this spacecraft chose to start dismantling its hull to maintain the mass of the black hole and maintain the energy supply... why didn't they Choose to set out for the solar system or the Australasia galaxy? After all. There will always be a lot of matter in a star system, and it should not be difficult to obtain supplementary supplies there. They are not like us. We can only rely on fusion fuel to provide Power, and they are black hole engines. Black holes are not picky eaters, they can eat anything.”

"I'm not sure about this problem, but I think that the intelligent program must have left a record of the voyage of this spacecraft at that time. I am restoring these data. When I restore them, we will probably know the reason. .”

"Okay, how long will it take you?" Wei Feng asked.

Ye Luo calculated for a while and replied: "I found that the intelligent program seemed to really hope that the data it left behind would be deciphered by other civilizations, so it used an encoding method that was very easy to crack. Therefore, I only need about three All the data can be decrypted in just a few days.”

"Okay, I'll wait for you." Wei Feng nodded.

This concludes the analysis of this alien device. Wei Feng solved many mysteries. Many new mysteries were discovered. Among these mysteries, the one that concerns Wei Feng the most is something about the Nanmen II galaxy. After all, the Nanmen II galaxy is the destination of his voyage. The situation there is closely related to yourself. Especially when he speculated that the mysterious signal might be related to the deadlock that human civilization was facing at the moment, Wei Feng became even more concerned about the situation there.

But these mysteries are destined to be things that cannot be solved in a short time. Wei Feng could only suppress the uneasiness in his heart. The wait slowly went on.

At this moment, Wei Feng has been sailing for more than three hundred years, covering a distance of more than three light years. At this moment, the satellite wind is still about 0.8 light-years away from Proxima Centauri, but there is still more than two light-months between Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri A and B. Therefore, it is necessary to truly reach the Centauri star system. It will take more than a hundred years for Wei Feng to reach the core.

Proxima Centauri is a dim red dwarf star with no planets surrounding it. There is no larger material belt, so Wei Feng has no intention of stopping at Proxima Centauri. Follow Wei Feng’s voyage plan. In about 80 years, the satellite wind will pass by Proxima Centauri at a distance of 5000 to 600 billion, and will only observe Proxima Centauri briefly before heading to the core of the galaxy Centauri. , that is, at Alpha Centauri A and B, and stay on the rocky planet that has been identified.

According to the original plan, Weifeng will stay there for a few to more than ten years. During this process, Weifeng may also take a small detection spacecraft to conduct some interplanetary voyages in the Nanmen II system in order to comprehensively explore the He carefully observed the situation of the entire Nanmen II galaxy, but looking at it now... it seems that Wei Feng can only spend his whole life in the Nanmen II galaxy. Because after the Xinghai spacecraft slowed down and finally stayed in the Nanmen II system, it only had the fuel left for the satellite wind to survive, and there was no longer enough fuel for the satellite wind to leave the Nanmen II system and return to the solar system.

Wei Feng has also thought about the possibility of obtaining fuel replenishment from the Nanmen II system, but no matter how Wei Feng plans, due to the limitations of the environment and the equipment carried by the spacecraft, this possibility is always very small, and it is basically impossible to succeed.

Wei Feng could only comfort himself this way: "Compared to most people who died in the war... being able to spend the rest of his life in the quiet Nanmen II Galaxy can probably be considered a blessing."

While waiting for Ye Luo to decipher the data left by the device's intelligent program for three days, Wei Feng performed some restorative exercises and also performed some daily maintenance work on the Xinghai spacecraft. In the non-stop busyness, three days passed by in a flash. After Wei Feng stepped off the treadmill, took a shower, and put on clean clothes, Ye Luo's voice reached Wei Feng's ears: "Captain, I have collected all the data that can be deciphered." It’s been deciphered.”

"Oh, very good, bring it to me." Wei Feng sat on his seat and ordered Ye Luo.

So a push-cart robot drove towards Wei Feng, with a stack of printed documents placed on it. Wei Feng picked up the document and the push-cart robot retreated on its own, not knowing where it went.

Wei Feng didn't care about the whereabouts of the pushing robot, but looked directly at the document. The document begins with a very eye-catching line: "By the time you see this information, our civilization, including me, may have disappeared from the universe for hundreds of millions of years. We don't know your civilization. We don’t know your history, we don’t know your culture, we know nothing about you, but this does not prevent me from crossing the gap of time and bringing you this greeting from the distant past, a strange civilization , hello."

When seeing this, Wei Feng said casually: "Ye Luo, it seems your guess is right. This paragraph shows that this life form really hopes that someone can decipher this message, so it deliberately adopted the simplest , which is also the most easily cracked binary encoding method."

"Yes, Captain, I think so too," Ye Luo replied.

After having this conversation with Ye Luo, Wei Feng took the document and continued reading.

"I am very lucky that the information I left behind can be seen by you. Our civilization has conducted a very detailed search of this universe during its long development time, but perhaps due to insufficient scientific and technological strength, we have never found it. Signs of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent civilizations. This once made us wonder if we were the only ones in the universe. Now that you can see this document, it shows that we are not alone in this universe. We are very happy I intend to share with you everything about our civilization, about its origin, development, prosperity and ultimate demise. We know that long time will bury all traces of the existence of our civilization, but I think that since we are here It has appeared in the universe, so after all, we have to leave something behind to show that we once existed, right?”

"First of all, let's introduce ourselves. We are a technological gregarious civilization born on the fourth planet around the following star. Our civilization has developed enough to travel within the entire star system, but in the end, due to lack of resources and navigation Due to the contradiction between abilities, our civilization eventually split and a large-scale civil war occurred. As I write this material, the civil war has ended. Although our civilization has not yet perished, I believe that the outcome of destruction has been It is doomed, it is only a matter of time when it will perish. This is the entire life course of our civilization."

This information describes the origin, prosperity and final demise of a civilization in very brief words. Wei Feng could not see any emotional description in these words, but Wei Feng knew that the process must be very heroic and thrilling. But here it is passed over in just a few sentences.

This information is followed by a simple star chart logo. A fourth planet around one of the stars is painted a striking red. This obviously means that they originated from this planet. Wei Feng checked the star map and immediately recognized the planet.

Just as Wei Feng speculated, the star in the star map is the sun, and the planet painted in eye-catching red is Mars. (To be continued ~^~)

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