Earth Era

Hearing Ye Luo's words "Why pursue it", Wei Feng sighed, left his seat, walked to the porthole again, and looked at the endless starry sky outside the ship's porthole, speechless for a long time. After a long time, Wei Feng said: "Indeed, there is no point in pursuing this matter. Anyway, all the parties involved are dead, and even this civilization has probably perished. But... what happened in this Martian civilization spacecraft Things are so similar to the Martian civilization of the past and the current human civilization..."

Ye Luo remained silent, while Wei Feng said as if talking to himself: "The Martian spacecraft used for the escape must be huge, and there must be many Martians on it. And... when we finally discovered it, There's only a little bit left of it, and there's just...a hibernation capsule inside. So, where did the remaining Martians go?"

This is the most critical part of the problem. In that information, the Martian did not give any description of all the other missing Martians, as if they had never existed at all.

It was obvious that the Martian deliberately concealed these things, but these concealed things were still noticed by Wei Feng and Ye Luo.

So...where did those missing Martians go?

Based on the description in this document, Wei Feng knew that the spacecraft had lost power due to a malfunction, and it could only remain in the open area around the sun forever, orbiting the sun in an extremely long orbital period.

It has limited energy reserves, limited spare parts reserves, and limited survival material reserves.

Every more person means more consumption.

If you want to obtain enough materials and resources, you must return to the solar system or sail to the Nanmen II system. Even if it still has to face the threat of civilization degradation in the end, it can at least solve the current dilemma for the time being.

And... to reach the solar system or the Nanmen II system, you must have enough resources and materials to repair the spacecraft's propulsion module. Otherwise, how can a spacecraft without power travel long distances?

If the ship cannot be repaired, resources cannot be obtained. The ship cannot be repaired without access to resources. This is also a dead knot, a smaller version of the dead knot. When the dead knot enveloped the entire civilization, the civilization split for the sake of resources and eventually produced a civil war. When the dead knot enveloped this spaceship. In order to seize more resources, and at the same time, kill the remaining lives as much as possible to save resources. There must have been a civil war within this spaceship.

War is the law of historical development, and it does not depend on individual will.

As a result, a miniature version of the civil war broke out in this spaceship. The difference is that this civil war is even more cruel, because it will never stop unless... there is only the last person left in the spaceship.

Not even if there are only two people left in the end. Because when there are only two people left. As long as you kill your opponent, it means that you can monopolize all the resources, which means that your survival time can be doubled. No one can resist this temptation.

So...who is the last remaining Martian? Obviously, it was the Martian who had been dissected on the operating table by Wei Feng.

It was not killed by Wei Feng. Through autopsy analysis, Wei Feng determined that it had died long ago. As for the specific time of death, it was impossible to determine. The only thing that could be determined was one thing. That is to say, the time of death must be very long. As for whether this long time is tens of millions of years or hundreds of millions of years, Wei Feng has no way to determine.

In the civil war that broke out on this spaceship. The Martian had the last laugh. It killed all the enemies on the ship, and it monopolized all the resources in the ship. It had full authority over the spacecraft, and it completely controlled the spacecraft, but it still died. It was already dead tens or even hundreds of millions of years before Wei Feng discovered it. It defeated everyone, but ultimately lost to endless time and the empty universe.

During the long period of time it had fought for to live longer than others, the intelligent system of the spacecraft disassembled most of the mass of the spacecraft and put them into the black hole to maintain the black hole's energy output. At the same time, Wei Feng was convinced. The corpses of all the Martians killed by it must have been thrown into the black hole - after all, corpses also have mass. Even if one Martian weighs only 40 kilograms, the mass of 10,000 Martians is as high as Four hundred tons, and... it is absolutely impossible for the mass of four hundred tons to be wasted.

The cabin that may be covered with bullet casings and blood, the numerous hibernating cabins that once provided hibernation services for many Martians, the living and entertainment areas that may have accommodated many Martians to dine and entertain together, are all following The passage of time turned into the mass of the black hole, and through Hawking radiation, into the energy that maintained the survival of the last remaining Martian. It lived longer than any Martian, but it eventually died and turned into a specimen on Wei Feng's autopsy table. The hibernating cabin and its ancillary equipment that had carried it for hundreds of millions of years were dismantled into pieces by Wei Feng, and then numbered and stored by Ye Luo to study their uses and working mechanisms.

The sea has changed, time has changed, and such a long time has passed in the blink of an eye. But even now, Wei Feng still feels a fear coming from deep in his heart when he thinks of that terrible time that happened in the spaceship. and shudder.

"What kind of time was that..." Wei Feng sighed, "After the goal of "only the last person alive" has been determined, everyone will be his own enemy. There are no allies there, and anyone can Become your own murderer, and you will kill everyone you see. All moral systems will be broken, and all the virtues that people have preached for a long time will be like window paper under the cruel reality. If poked and broken, everyone will turn into beasts that only fight for survival instincts. The animal nature that has been hidden for a long time under long-term education will burst out in full force. I think that at that time, they can no longer be called Humans, they are beasts, complete beasts."

Wei Feng continued to look out the window, looking at the great star that was no longer the brightest star in the sky, but still clearly identifiable, the great star that gave birth to himself and the entire Martian civilization and human civilization, and continued to speak quietly. : "If...if I were in that kind of environment, I think I would choose to commit suicide immediately."

Ye Luo asked: "Isn't survival the first priority in life?"

Wei Feng said: "But I think...the collapse of civilization and the collapse of the worldview is more terrifying than death."

Ye Luo returned to silence, and Wei Feng continued: "This Martian is really terrifying. If it hadn't died when I found it... I don't think I would be its opponent. Its limbs Although it is weak, although it has been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years, but... it is a beast, an intelligent beast. Its heart is strong enough to kill thousands of its own compatriots, and then use its passion to I wrote this letter in a tone full of desolation and solemnity. It is powerful enough to throw the corpses of my compatriots into the black hole one by one and turn them into fuel, and then lie peacefully in my hibernation cabin waiting for rescue. ...It is too powerful, and I am no match for it. If it comes to our spaceship alive, I will definitely die."

Ye Luo said: "I am also glad that it is dead."

Wei Feng was silent for a moment, and then said: "According to what was described in its letter, part of the Martian civilization's escape fleet returned to the solar system, while the other part was still heading to the Nanmen II system. This means that even at this moment, There may still be Martians in the South Gate II system. They may have survived in the harsh environment and survived until now. Frankly speaking, I have some fear of them in my heart."

Ye Luo said: "I don't think you need to worry about this. If there is a civilization with a certain level of technological development in the Nanmen Galaxy, our human civilization must have discovered them long ago. And since we have not discovered it, that means , even if the Martian civilization survives, they must have been at a very low level of civilization due to the degradation of civilization and the loss of technology. Faced with such Martians, what is there to fear?"

Wei Feng said: "Then...how do you explain the flash information from the Nanmen II galaxy? It is impossible to emit such a flash of light that is enough to transmit information across star systems without the development of technology to a certain extent."

Ye Luo said: "This is indeed a contradiction, but there are still many possibilities to explain this problem. In short, there may or may not be Martians in the Nanmen II system. Before we finally reach our destination , it’s impossible for us to know the answer to this question.”

Wei Feng sighed again, and then said: "Although I have fear in my heart, this fear will not have any impact on my determination. I must go to the Nanmen II System. Unless I die, no one will Nothing can stop me. I have to figure it all out. After all, that flash of information may be closely related to the knot that our human civilization faces."

"I really don't want our human civilization to follow the same path as the Martian civilization. I really don't want to see our human civilization degenerate into a beast that only knows bloodthirsty killings under the trouble of death knot... For this goal, I will even die. , and die without regrets." (To be continued~^~)