The Science Fiction World of Xueba

One day later, in the middle of the night, the Halo-2 aerospace plane performed a launch mission.

It took Pang Xuelin, Cheng Xin, Wade, Zhang Beihai, Hines, Ding Yi, Cao Bin, and the virologist Wang Zhiping who was in charge of treating Luo Ji, and successfully lifted off.

In addition, Luo Ji's hibernation cabin and a thought stamp machine that has not yet been engraved with a proposition are also contained in the cargo hold.

After flying in the atmosphere for nearly ten minutes, everyone finally saw the blue planet through the porthole.

"What a beauty!"

Cheng Xin took off the space suit mask that must be worn during the take-off phase, revealing a slightly pale pretty face, through the porthole, greedily looking down at the homeland that humans rely on for survival.

Pang Xuelin skillfully unbuckled his seat belt and floated freely in the cabin.

That level of weightlessness was no problem for him during his lengthy space trip to The Martian world.

Wade, Zhang Beihai, Hines, Cao Bin and the others also looked at the world below curiously.

Cao Bin said with a smile: "After today, I can finally tell my students confidently that the earth is indeed spherical, because I have seen it with my own eyes!"

Everyone couldn't help laughing.

Among them, apart from Pang Xuelin, the only one who has actually been in space is the oldest Ding Yi.

"More than 20 years ago, I took a NASA aerospace plane to the International Space Station. I didn't expect that after so many years, I would still have the opportunity to go to space." Ding Yi said with some emotion.

Pang Xuelin laughed and said, "Professor Ding, with the development of technology, the cost of spaceflight is getting lower and lower, and the comfort will be improved accordingly. In the future, you will have plenty of opportunities to go to space."

Ding Yi smiled and waved her hands and said, "I'd better forget it. Anyway, I can't do scientific research now, and it's meaningless to go to space. It's better to take students on Earth."

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly: "That's not certain."

Pang Xuelin turned around in the personnel cabin, and soon, the commander's voice sounded: "Professor Pang, Halo-2 will change orbit and fly to Gravity in five minutes, please return to your seat as soon as possible and sit down! "

"clear!"

With the help of the handrail on the bulkhead, Pang Xuelin returned to his position lightly.

Cheng Xin, who was sitting next to him, asked curiously, "Professor Pang, why are you so proficient in flying? I remember it was your first time in space."

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Maybe it's talent, I think it's easy to float in weightlessness!"

...

The orbit change flight went smoothly. Twenty minutes later, everyone could already see the huge figure of "Gravity" through the portholes.

Gravity is the largest and most powerful war machine ever built by mankind.

Its total length exceeds six hundred meters,

Nearly seventy meters in diameter, it still looks like a cigar as a whole. Under the sunlight, the dark silver surface reflects a cold metallic texture.

This is a super battleship built by Xinghuan City with countless resources. Even the "Oasis" and "Natural Selection" that have been in service before can't compare with it.

In comparison, the Halo-2 aerospace plane, which is also not too small, seems to be a small sampan.

Pang Xuelin noticed that when he saw the "Gravity", Zhang Beihai's gaze was fixed on the huge monster outside the porthole, and his whole attention seemed to be attracted by this super warship.

However, Pang Xuelin didn't care. Anyway, neither the "Oasis", "Natural Selection" nor the newly commissioned "Gravity" had the capability of interstellar flight, and he didn't worry about Zhang Beihai running away with his boat.

Others also made exclamations one after another.

Although they had seen the construction of the "Gravity" through video data when they were on the ground, seeing this scene for the first time still shocked everyone.

Ten minutes later, under the command of the commander, Halo-2 successfully docked with the "Gravity" spacecraft.

Pang Xuelin and his party passed through the transition cabin and entered the Gravity.

Afterwards, under the leadership of the guide, everyone followed the all-round passage in the Gravity to the bridge of the Gravity.

The bridge of "Gravity" is located in the ring-shaped area near the edge in front of the spacecraft. The bridge rotates around the axis of the spacecraft, using centrifugal force to simulate the gravitational environment on the earth.

The bridge area is very large, a bit like an aerospace command center on Earth, filled with various holographic displays and various operating consoles, with more than a hundred crew members on duty.

The most eye-catching thing is the holographic display at the front of the bridge that simulates a porthole.

At this time, the picture of the earth captured by the camera outside the cabin is being transmitted to the holographic display in real time.

Captain Xu Shaomin of the "Gravity" led more than a dozen senior officers of the "Gravity" to welcome everyone on the bridge.

"Professor Pang, I'm Xu Shaomin, the captain of the Gravity. Here, on behalf of all the officers and men of the Gravity, you are welcome to visit! Salute!"

Xu Shaomin quickly raised his right hand upwards, and made a solemn military salute to Pang Xuelin.

The dozen or so senior officers behind her also saluted.

Pang Xuelin nodded and smiled at Xu Shaomin, and said, "Captain Xu, hello everyone, I have worked hard for you during this time!"

"It's not hard at all, it's our honor to be a crew member of Gravity!"

Xu Shaomin said with a smile: "Professor Pang, let me introduce to you the leadership of our Gravity first!"

Xu Shaomin is a heroic-looking woman in her early thirties. Being able to become the captain of the "Gravity" at such an age is enough to show her ability.

"good!"

Pang Xuelin nodded.

"Professor Pang, this is Flower Clive, the political commissar of Gravity!"

Clive is a white male, but when he saw Pang Xuelin, he was still very excited.

"Hello!"

"This is Vice Captain Eisen."

"Hello!"

"This is Zhu Yao, Director of the Navigation Department."

"Hello!"

"This is the Minister of Electrical and Mechanical Services, Sinclair Keane."

"Hello!"

...

Xu Shaomin introduced the senior officers on the ship to Pang Xuelin one by one, and when she introduced a handsome young man with a square face, Xu Shaomin said: "This is our Minister of Aerospace Communications, Chu Yan! "

"Chu Yan?!"

Pang Xuelin was slightly taken aback, and couldn't help but look at him more.

Chu Yan stood at attention and gave Pang Xuelin a salute with a serious expression. Pang Xuelin kept his appearance firmly in his heart, stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Do it well!"

"yes!"

Chu Yan responded a little excitedly.

In the original novel, if Zhang Beihai is the father of the galactic humans, then Chu Yan is the real leader of the galactic humans.

In the original novel, before the doomsday battle, Chu Yan drove the "Blue Space" and two other interstellar warships to chase the "Natural Selection" kidnapped by Zhang Beihai, thus escaping disaster.

After the Battle of Doomsday, the entire human fleet was wiped out. Facts have proved Zhang Beihai's foresight.

Chu Yan and the others also obeyed Zhang Beihai's leadership one after another, decided to form a starship human, and followed Zhang Beihai to the new world to open up wasteland.

However, everyone soon realized that the supplies carried by a spacecraft alone cannot support the next star system.

Unless all the people in the other three spaceships are killed, and then all the supplies in the four spaceships are concentrated in one.

So the chain of suspicion broke out in the four spaceships. In the end, one of the spaceships took the lead in attacking the other three spaceships with infrasonic bombs.

Zhang Beihai and the others died one after another.

Only Chu Yan, when the opponent launched an attack, actually evacuated the spaceship in advance, and the crew entered the deep sea state, thus avoiding the blow of the infrasonic bomb.

Subsequently, the "Blue Space" launched a counterattack and became the only survivor of the four warships.

Later, in the third part of the novel, Chu Yan and the others also led the Blue Space, using the four-dimensional debris encountered by the spacecraft to defeat the three-body civilization water droplet detector that was chasing them, and at the moment of human civilization's survival, the three The body civilization launched the cosmic broadcast, which gave human beings a chance to breathe.

In the original books of the Three-Body Problem series, Da Liu didn’t pay much attention to Chu Yan, but no matter how you look at it, this person has strong leadership and a wise mind, even compared with Zhang Beihai, he is not much less .

Pang Xuelin didn't know if the Chu Yan he saw today was the Chu Yan in the original book.

But no matter what, this man deserves his own attention.

After introducing each other, Xu Shaomin first took Pang Xuelin and the others to have a space meal, which was regarded as a clean-up for them.

Afterwards, he took Pang Xuelin and his party directly to the waiting room prepared for them.

In the next two days, Wang Zhiping officially began to treat Luo Ji in the medical cabin of the "Gravity", and Pang Xuelin and the others visited around the "Gravity" every day to learn about the performance and combat effectiveness of the spaceship.

It wasn't until a week later that Pang Xuelin saw Luo Ji who had fully healed and woke up in the medical cabin!

"Professor Pang!"

When seeing Pang Xuelin, Luo Ji looked a little surprised.

Then, he looked around and asked in surprise, "Professor Pang, what time is it and where is this?"

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "It is now July 28, 36, Era of Crisis. This is the medical cabin of the spaceship Gravity. We are currently in geosynchronous orbit. Dr. Luo Ji, congratulations, the virus in your body has been completely eliminated, and you have recovered." healthy."

"The 36th year of the Era of Crisis?"

Luo Ji lowered his head and pondered for a while, then raised his head and asked in confusion, "Professor Pang, I remember the star spell I cast, it probably hasn't worked yet, why did the United Nations wake me up?"

Pang Xuelin said with a faint smile: "It's true that it hasn't worked yet, but it's not you who was awakened by the United Nations, but you who were awakened by Fleet International. At present, the United Nations no longer exists on Earth, and Fleet International has taken over the wall-facing plan in all aspects. At the same time, I will be in charge. Chief Executive Officer of Fleet International!"

"The United Nations is gone?! Are you the Chief Executive Officer of Fleet International?!"

Luo Ji was obviously very surprised.

Pang Xuelin smiled, and roughly described to Luo Ji the development of the earth in the past thirty years.

"So, Lan Yi... Lan Yin and the others are also in Star Ring City?"

Luo Ji said excitedly.

Pang Xuelin nodded with a smile, and said, "Dr. Luo Ji, as long as you assist us in completing the next mission, you will be able to see your wife and children when you return to Earth!"

"Okay, what task do you want to complete, I will definitely assist with all my strength!"

Pang Xuelin smiled lightly and said, "Come with me first!"

Pang Xuelin brought Luo Ji to a cabin where Cheng Xin, Wade and the others had been waiting for a long time.

Pang Xuelin looked at the people in the cabin, then turned to Xu Shaomin who was standing by his side, and said, "Captain Xu, take all the other people from the Aerospace Communication Department to evacuate this cabin, and at the same time close the cabin door and turn off any audio-visual recording equipment. Minister Chu Yan stays!"

"yes!"

Xu Shaomin hesitated for a moment, nodded to Pang Xuelin, and left the cabin with several crew members of the Department of Aerospace Communications who were on duty.

Pang Xuelin's eyes swept over everyone present, Cheng Xin, Wade, Hines, Ding Yi, Cao Bin, Zhang Beihai, Chu Yan, and finally, they stopped on Luo Ji.

Cheng Xin and the others also turned solemn.

This time they brought them into the "Gravity", they still couldn't figure out what Pang Xuelin was going to do.

Now is indeed the time for the showdown.

Pang Xuelin said: "Everyone here is someone I really trust. In the attitude of being responsible for all mankind, I hope that what happened next will become a common secret among the nine of us here. Of course, for the same To prevent leaks, I will ask everyone to accept the thought seal prepared by Mr. Hines before leaving this cabin!"

Ding Yi said: "Professor Pang, tell me, what are you going to do next?"

A faint smile appeared on Pang Xuelin's face, and he said, "I think everyone should know that in the ninth year of the Era of Crisis, during the hearing of Dr. Luo Ji's Wall Face Project, Dr. Luo Ji asked the United Nations to send a star spell!"

Everyone nodded, and turned their gazes to Luo Ji one by one.

Luo Ji's face changed slightly, and he frowned, "Professor Pang, what are you going to do?"

Pang Xuelin said: "At the hearing of the Wall Facing Project back then, you asked the United Nations to transmit the three-dimensional coordinates of the 187J3X1 star in the universe through the stellar radio wave amplification function, and then the United Nations did so."

"These years, I've been thinking, what is the purpose of Dr. Luo Ji doing this? Why Trisolaran and ETO always want to kill you at any cost!"

Luo Ji remained silent, and neither did the others, and the whole cabin fell into a strange silence.

"When I can't sleep at night, I like to get out of bed and look at the stars, the star that I spent money to buy for me and Zhuang Yan. Then one day, when I was watching DX3906, I suddenly thought, will DX3906 Will it have planets, will it also have civilizations?"

"Oh, wait a minute..."

As he said that, Pang Xuelin suddenly raised his head, as if looking at some unknown existence: "I know you are watching us, are you really going to continue live broadcasting the next paragraph I want to say to the ETO people?"

...

Somewhere in an unknown cyberspace, in mid-air, the picture in the cabin of Gravity transmitted by Sophon was suddenly interrupted.

"grass!"

Mozi cursed angrily.

Qin Shihuang, who was standing beside him, let out a long sigh and said, "Lord, you still don't trust us!"

Mozi said: "Qin Shihuang, among the wall-breakers, only the two of us are awake. Does the wall-facer you are in charge of have any ideas?"

Qin Shihuang shook his head, and said solemnly: "To be honest, I have been with him for so many years. Although I have been observing him, I have never understood his thoughts. No matter whether he created Star Ring City or some kind of controllable nuclear fusion before, yes As far as the Lord is concerned, it doesn’t make any sense. But this time, he suddenly took Luo Ji, who was in hibernation, to the Gravity, and was immediately noticed by the Lord. It’s a pity that I was sent to Australia at that time. The development has always been weak, and we no longer have the ability to infiltrate the Star Ring City, let alone those space battleships. It is very likely that he went to the Gravity this time to carry out a real wall-facing plan, but I don’t understand, I think I don’t understand why the Lord stopped supporting us just because of one word from him!”

Mo Zi said: "Wait, I think, the Lord must have a last resort! The Lord should give us a reasonable explanation later."

"I hope so!" Qin Shihuang sighed.

...

After Pang Xuelin said that inexplicably to the air, the atmosphere in the cabin suddenly stagnated.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Where did I just say?"

Cheng Xin said, "Professor Pang, you said you thought about whether DX3906 would have planets, and whether it would also have civilizations."

"Oh, yes, will there be civilization in DX3906? Then I thought of a more terrifying thing. Both Alpha Centauri and the sun are just ordinary stars on the Orion arm of the Milky Way galaxy, and the distance is only two miles away, four light-years away. Each star has given birth to intelligent civilization, so what about the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way? Could it be that these stars cannot give birth to intelligent civilization? As long as these intelligent civilizations evolve a million years earlier than us, then we can basically Sure, their technological level is unbelievably high. But where are they? Why don't they make a sound? Why can't we find any signs of alien civilization in the universe?"

Pang Xuelin's tone was very calm, not rushing, but Cheng Xin suddenly felt a creepy feeling.

"So I thought of that strange stellar spell that Dr. Luo Ji made back then. After thinking about it for a long time, I came to a terrible conclusion. There are indeed countless civilizations in the universe, but they all hid themselves .”

"Why are they hiding themselves?"

Cheng Xin wondered.

Pang Xuelin showed a bright smile on his face, and said: "Because...they are afraid of exposing themselves, and exposing themselves means death!"

"ah?!"

Cheng Xin couldn't help covering her mouth lightly, her eyes widened!

Luo Ji sighed and said, "Professor Pang, it seems that you have thought of it too!"

"Yes, I thought of that too!"

Pang Xuelin said: "Dr. Luo Ji, you can tell your secret now. You should know why ETO assassinated you back then!"

Luo Ji nodded and said, "I met Ye Wenjie!"

After the words were finished, everyone raised their heads and looked at Luo Ji in surprise, only Pang Xuelin smiled lightly.

Luo Ji continued: "Ye Wenjie's daughter Yang Dong and I were classmates in high school. After Yang Dong committed suicide, I went to visit her grave, and I happened to meet Ye Wenjie. At that time, the three-body crisis had not yet broken out, and no one knew that there was a three-body problem." Civilization is such a thing. That evening, in front of Yang Dong’s tombstone, Ye Wenjie suggested that I should consider studying the sociology of the universe, and told me two basic axioms and two important concepts in the universe.”

"1. Survival is the first need of civilization. 2. Civilization continues to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged. Two important concepts are: 1. Chain of suspicion: Both parties cannot judge whether the other party is a benevolent civilization 2. Technological explosion: The speed and acceleration of civilization progress are not necessarily consistent, and weak civilizations are likely to produce technological explosions and surpass powerful civilizations in a short period of time due to various reasons."

Ding Yi, Cao Bin, and Hines all had expressions of thought on their faces.

Wade, Zhang Beihai, and Chu Yan were expressionless, but from their flickering eyes, it could be seen that their hearts were not so peaceful.