Earth Era

"Captain, are you really sure... you want to stay here?" After a long silence, Ye Luo finally said this.

"Yes, otherwise what else can we do?" Wei Feng said with a smile, "Rather than both you and I staying on this planet, it would be better for me to stay alone."

Ye Luo fell into silence again.

Strictly speaking, what Wei Feng said is indeed a method. If Wei Feng does not go back, it means that many of the equipment and materials on the Xinghai spacecraft can be dismantled. First of all, the maintenance materials can be dismantled, and the hundreds of tons of food and drinking water will no longer occupy the mass. All the equipment added to maintain the survival of the toilet, such as hibernation system, temperature control system, pressurization system, radiation protection system, etc. It can also be removed. At the same time, the amount of fuel saved by shutting down these equipment is also very considerable.

Not only that, if "sending these key scientific data back to the solar system" is just the top priority, there are many other things that can be dismantled. For example, various scientific equipment, huge spacecraft cabins, etc. The Xinghai spacecraft can complete this task as long as it retains some necessary equipment, such as navigation system, propulsion system, maintenance system and other equipment.

The combined mass of all these detachable things will be as high as at least 99% of the Xinghai spacecraft. In other words... under the condition that the total amount of fuel remains unchanged, the total mass of the Xinghai spacecraft is reduced to one percent of the original, and the remaining fuel consumption during the voyage will also be greatly reduced. In this case, it is entirely possible to send leaf falls back to the solar system relying on existing fuel.

This is Wei Feng's idea. It's so simple, yet seems... so cruel.

This is the ancient and desolate Nanmen Galaxy. It is so close to the solar system, yet so far away. The distance between these two star systems is so great that it would take the entire life of Moonwind to cross the journey.

Ye Luo was silent, while Wei Feng was still smiling. Wei Feng had come up with this idea a long time ago, and it had been in Wei Feng's mind for a long time. So Wei Feng was very calm at the moment.

Wei Feng walked to the porthole and stared at the bright star in the celestial sphere. It just hangs on the horizon, quietly releasing its own light. Apart from this single point of light, Wei Feng could not see any other information about this star. But Wei Feng knew that it was around that star. There are many people and many things who were born there and then left there...

"When I was looking at that star, I didn't know if anyone in the solar system was looking at it at the same time..." Wei Feng sighed and said, "I think there is probably no one. It's already been a long time since my time. Nearly five hundred years have passed, and all my past has been buried in the dust of time. Probably no one will remember that hundreds of years ago, a man rode a spaceship and embarked on this journey alone. travel……"

"But it doesn't matter." Wei Feng still stared at the star seriously, "You can forget me...but I will not forget you. I will always remember the star I came from, and I will always remember...my name is Wei Feng, I am...a human."

"Captain, are you really sure you want to do this?" Ye Luo asked this question for the third time. Wei Feng turned around, looked at the place where the sound came from and said, "Of course."

"Okay." Ye Luo said. "I am just a program, and my mission is to help you complete your instructions. My creator did not give me the power to interfere with your decision. Now that you have made the decision, captain... then, I promise you. I These scientific data will definitely be sent to the solar system, definitely."

"Actually, there is no need to be so sad, Ye Luo." Wei Feng said with a smile: "Maybe... we will have a chance to meet in the future. If we are lucky enough, if our human civilization has not attacked the sun at this moment. ...These key scientific data will play a very magical role. I think the war will stop quickly because of the arrival of these data, and the technology of our human civilization will once again make a leap. By that time, I think there will be someone Thinking of me still stranded in the Nanmen II galaxy, someone will definitely come to pick me up..."

Wei Feng's speculation is not unreasonable. The reason why wars break out is because of insufficient resources. This situation is like two beggars fighting over a piece of steamed buns. There is only one piece of steamed bun. If I eat it, you can’t eat it. If you eat it, I can’t eat it. Conflict arises from this. And if at this time, a rich man came over and told the two of them. As long as the conflict stops, countless delicious food will be provided to them... So, will these two people continue to fight?

Even a fool would stop fighting at this point. This is the current situation. This key scientific data indicates an extremely bright future. As long as it is thoroughly studied, human civilization can begin large-scale interstellar colonization, and there will be countless planets waiting for humans to occupy. At that time, humans would probably only worry about insufficient population to occupy so many planets, and not worry about insufficient resources.

So...as long as Ye Luo can send this data back to the solar system, the war will definitely stop. This is the general trend of history, and it will not change based on the personal will of any one leader. It is said that those who understand the current affairs are heroes. If a leader insists on launching a war for his own selfish interests even though he already has key scientific data... he will be betrayed by his people.

This means the great development of science and technology of human civilization. And it is true as Wei Feng said, when that time comes, someone will definitely come here to take Wei Feng home.

"I will transport the hibernation system and all the survival material reserves in the spacecraft to the Blue Night Star. There, I will use solar energy as the energy source to maintain my hibernation, and I will enter a deep sleep. I will sleep until someone wakes me up." Wei Feng said, "So...at that time, I think we will meet again."

Ye Luo still remained silent. Although Ye Luo is not an artificial intelligence with independent self-awareness, its degree of intelligence is quite high. It can easily understand the meaning of Wei Feng's words, whether it is superficial or implicit.

So Ye Luo knew that although Wei Feng said he was optimistic, the actual situation was not like that.

To achieve the scenario described by Wei Feng, there are several prerequisites. First, Yeluo must be able to send these scientific data back to the solar system. Ye Luo is just an artificial intelligence, and its abilities are limited after all. The interstellar voyage is so long, and no one knows what will happen during the process. So...can Ye Luo really send these things back to the solar system smoothly?

Secondly, where is the current war progress of human civilization? Maybe at this moment, the light carrying the dramatic changes in the sun is already on its way to the Nanmen II galaxy. Maybe the changes in the sun at the next moment will be observed by Ye Luo, and... once human civilization attacks the sun , then the destruction of human civilization will almost become a foregone conclusion.

Thirdly, even if Ye Luo succeeds in sending these key scientific data back to the solar system, human civilization has not attacked the sun. So...can a technological leap really be achieved through these scientific data? After all, it has not been verified in practice, and it is impossible to judge what the final result will be.

Even if all the above conditions are true and human civilization has really made a technological leap and broken the deadlock, is Wei Feng really safe? No, still not. The cessation of war, the game of various forces within civilization, post-war reconstruction, economic reconstruction, population recovery... these are the basis for large-scale scientific research activities. And this process can be lengthy. In other words, even if all this goes very smoothly, it is unlikely that human civilization will take back Wei Feng within a thousand years. And...how many changes will happen in a thousand years? Can hibernation equipment last that long? What should I do if the parts are damaged? What to do if hit by an asteroid? What should I do if Wei Feng cannot wake up due to hibernation time being too long?

The most likely outcome is... human civilization has not made a technological leap, and Wei Feng will never wake up. Wei Feng will stay on the Blue Night Star forever, always accompanying the Martian. This planet will become Wei Feng's eternal cemetery.

It was precisely because of knowing these things that Ye Luo remained silent. But...the reality is that the situation is already like this. If we don't do this, what other solution is there?

"Captain... I think we will definitely have a chance to meet again." Ye Luo finally broke the silence, "During this period, you can sleep on the blue night star first. Please believe me, I will definitely come to take you home. This may take a long time, and you may have to wait for hundreds of years, or even a thousand years, but please keep waiting."

"Of course, artificial intelligence will not lie. If you tell me this, I will naturally believe you." Wei Feng smiled and nodded: "Then... let's start working. The Xinghai spacecraft is a big thing and we need to dismantle it. It’s not an easy thing to drop.”

"Okay Captain, please wait for a while. I will try to calculate the optimal disassembly plan. We will try to reduce the mass of the Xinghai spacecraft as much as possible while retaining more functions and reliability."

"Okay, I know you are better at this." Wei Feng smiled and nodded. (To be continued ~^~)

PS: The second update will be later... Rainbow is working hard on coding...