The Science Fiction World of Xueba

According to the original plan, for this test voyage, the spacecraft will conduct large-scale maneuvers in the vast airspace within the orbit of Mars.

However, perhaps because of concerns about infectious diseases, the Senate greatly reduced the scope of the spaceship's trial flight, and only conducted maneuvering trials within a radius of 30 million kilometers centered on the earth.

Sophon is still on the earth, and Pang Xuelin has not brought him into the spaceship.

The reason is simple, Pang Xuelin needs to keep abreast of the latest news on Earth through Sophon.

As for the time of sabotage, Pang Xuelin can summon Sophon back to the system space with just one thought, and then release it again in the spaceship.

Up to now, Pang Xuelin still doesn't know what kind of existence the so-called system space is.

Anyway, as long as he has a thought, no matter where Sophon is, she can instantly return to the system space.

Pang Xuelin sometimes even wondered if he could perform such an operation when he and Sophon were a few light-years away.

Because if this is really feasible from a technical point of view, it means that there is a technology that can perform large-scale long-distance space jumps regardless of the speed of light limit.

He once asked the system this question.

It's just that when the dog system encounters such a sensitive problem, it either chooses to play dead or talk about him.

This made Pang Xuelin very helpless.

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There is nothing to say about the spaceship test flight, the only interesting thing is the artificial gravitational field system in the spaceship.

This artificial force field can allow people on the spacecraft to move freely like they are on the earth.

Compared with the kind of artificial force field created by centrifugal force that Pang Xuelin had seen in the world of Dark Forest and The Martian, the level is much higher.

Moreover, when the spaceship is undergoing orbital maneuvering and accelerating, Pang Xuelin will not feel the impact of the acceleration even if he maneuvers instantaneously without the need for deep-sea accelerator fluid in the dark forest.

Pang Xuelin faintly suspects that this is the effect that can only be shown when the force field distorts the space for maneuvering.

It's like the mobility displayed by the water droplets of the Trisolaran civilization during the Doomsday battle in the dark forest, which does not conform to the common sense of human astrodynamics.

It's just that he has only been in this world for five years, and most of his energy has been devoted to the field of biology, so he has not studied this technology too deeply.

During this time, Sophon has been broadcasting to him every move on Earth.

With the large-scale outbreak of the reverse assimilation virus, the number of people infected with the reverse assimilation virus in the world is currently on the rise.

At present, the Senate of the shrimp civilization has declared that the earth has entered a state of emergency, but in some areas, the situation has begun to slowly escape the control of the Senate.

Especially taking advantage of this crisis, the "Eye of the Sky" organization began to disrupt the situation frequently, causing the entire Senate of the Shrimp Civilization to suffer.

And soon, the shrimp people discovered that the transformed humans infected with the reverse assimilation virus can slowly restore their human appearance. Although the infection is equivalent to a serious illness, the mortality rate is only about 10%.

But native shrimp people are different.

Because their ancestors devoured too many genes of other species, once these hidden genes broke out in their bodies, the death rate was almost as high as 100%.

It is for this reason,

As a result, the Goethe terminated the planned month-long trial voyage one week after it sailed, and chose to return.

However, the Goethe did not enter the earth after returning, but was parked in a geosynchronous orbit 36,000 kilometers above the equator in accordance with the order of the Senate.

At this time, there were actually signs of a large-scale outbreak of the virus inside the Goethe.

According to the monitoring data provided by Sophon, among the 100,000 people on the Goethe, more than 1,000 crew members have been quarantined due to illness, and more than 500 of them have died.

The average time from onset of illness to death is about three to five days.

However, the Goethe uses a dual control mode of artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence. Even if soldiers leave their posts, the use of artificial intelligence technology can also ensure the normal operation of the spacecraft.

As for who will be in control after artificial intelligence takes over, it goes without saying.

Pang Xuelin has nothing to do every day. Except for six hours a day, he is on duty in the communication department, and the rest of the time, he stays in his cabin.

The cabin he lived in was just him and Peter.

However, Peter had been taken away by the gendarmerie two days ago when he became ill, and he never came back.

So this small cabin became his own independent space, and no one would come to disturb him.

In fact, strict information control measures are currently adopted in the Goethe spacecraft.

While the crew knew about the outbreak of a mysterious contagion, they didn't have a clear idea of ​​what it meant to be infected with it, or how serious it was now.

Therefore, Pang Xuelin's life is very comfortable. Every day, he learns about the latest disease data on the earth through Sophon, and sees the latest countermeasures of the Senate, so he can watch the movie with peace of mind.

As for Pang Xuelin himself, when he was at the Antarctic base, he had already been injected with a special vaccine against the reverse assimilation virus, which could make him immune to the effects of the reverse assimilation virus infection for a short period of time.

In the next period of time, whether in the spacecraft or on the earth, the number of people infected and erupted by the virus will increase dramatically.

The most important thing is that once this reverse assimilation virus infects shrimp humans, it will directly combine with the DNA fragment in its chromosome, so it is difficult to isolate the true body of this virus by normal means.

Moreover, according to the research progress of the major scientific research institutions of the Shrimp Civilization monitored by Sophon, it is not optimistic.

According to Pang Xuelin's estimate, under normal circumstances, it would take them three to five years to find the real body of the virus.

As for the development of a vaccine, it is estimated that it will take another three to five years.

By that time, the native shrimp people in the shrimp people civilization would probably be extinct.

And as more and more transformed people become human again after being infected with the virus, the world has become a mess.

Many transforming human armies began to declare their separation from the control of the Senate.

Even those high-level transformation people began to support themselves one by one.

The two interstellar warships Goethe and Tia above the geosynchronous orbit have become the last reliance of the native shrimps.

Time passed day by day, and this afternoon, Pang Xuelin had just finished his six-hour shift and returned to his cabin when he received the latest news from Sophon.

"Husband, the people in the Senate can't sit still anymore. The Supreme Elder has requested a meeting of all the elders of the Senate. It is very likely that a resolution to dispatch the interstellar warship will be passed."

Pang Xuelin nodded and said sternly, "Sophon, immediately send me the video of the meeting site through a two-dimensional projection."

"clear!"