Voyage of the Stars

"Forget it, close it. Just open the exterior skylight for me." Yue Yuan paused after hearing this, then turned and walked towards the slightly curved wall next to him.

It wasn't that he had deep space claustrophobia, but he felt that seeing it with his own eyes was more realistic than watching it on a screen, so he changed his mind on the spur of the moment.

Deep space cabin fever has been discovered in some personnel on duty in recent years. After humans enter space, they experience the vastness of the starry sky and their own insignificance, and thus feel boundless psychological loneliness.

It is considered a mental illness and its incidence rate is not high, but Tianhe Light still provides a friendly reminder.

"Okay sir, but I still have to remind you."

"I know, no need to say anything."

Yue Yuan interrupted the friendly reminder from AI Tianhe Light. He knew the following content. It was simply that seeing it with his own eyes had a higher incidence of illness than seeing it on the screen.

The skylight wall is made of a special optical material. After the opening command is transmitted, the original white wall seems to be melted, changing from opaque to one-way light transmission.

One-way light transmission means that the inside can be seen outside, but the outside cannot see the inside. The starlight that was allowed to pass through suddenly passed through the skylight wall and reflected in Yue Yuan's eyes.

After the interstellar dust gradually became thinner, many bright stars returned to people's field of vision. In addition, Hope was already in a space environment and was not affected by the atmosphere like the Earth, so the starry sky returned to people's field of vision.

However, because the observation position had already changed, Yue Yuan couldn't recognize which bright spot corresponded to which star after watching it for a while.

He was trying to find the most easily identifiable Big Dipper, but he still couldn't find any similar stars.

"Maybe the direction is wrong." Yue Yuan said to himself.

So he looked at it for a while, but after the Hope spacecraft had completed its autobiography for a week and the starry sky returned to its original state, he still couldn't find the Big Dipper.

Simply, he stopped looking, and just quietly looked at the starry sky that came and went.

The Hope has been spinning, but in Yue Yuan's sight, he only saw the stars emerging from the edge of the skylight above his head, and then falling from the edge of the skylight under his feet. He did not feel that he was spinning.

After no longer focusing on finding the Big Dipper, the breath of deep space came to my face.

At this moment, Yue Yuan seemed to feel the breath from the universe.

The starry sky is deep and silent, and the universe is dark and cold.

The universe is so huge. The diameter of the Milky Way alone is a hundred thousand light-years. This is just its star-dense galactic disk. If the outer areas with sparse stars are included, its diameter will reach 160,000 light-years. The stars The number has reached 300 billion.

This is such a vast concept, and humans are now trying their best to cross a distance of less than ten light years.

According to current human calculations, there are more than 200 billion galaxies like the Milky Way in the universe.

Even the sun, the hope of mankind, is too small compared to the entire universe. The metaphor of a grain of sand in the boundless sea is too big, and a water molecule in the sea is not adequate.

The universe is too old. People have calculated through microwave background radiation and a series of other observations that our universe is 26.7 billion years old (not actually confirmed, but used here), and its diameter is obviously much larger than this Numerically, because the expansion of the universe has been accelerating from the moment it was born.

The birth of the earliest human beings is only a few million years ago. Even if we count it from the hominid ape, it is only 14 million years. Even if we count it from the moment the first single-cell organism was born, it is only 3.5 billion years. Year. If we can say that the history of civilization can be called "civilization", it only lasts for six thousand years.

In a daze, an inexplicable emotion suddenly occurred in Yue Yuan's heart. He was lonely, insignificant, cold, and cold. The emotion came suddenly and swept into his heart.

At this moment, Yue Yuan felt as if he was in a void, surrounded by bright stars, beautiful and mysterious, but the sky behind the stars was extremely deep and dark. Suddenly, he felt darkness sweeping over him, and his whole body seemed to be falling into the infinite depths.

Loneliness and loneliness were like a giant beast in the deep sky, devouring his soul crazily.

At this moment, Yue Yuan closed his eyes for a long time. When he opened his eyes again, the confusion in his eyes was no longer visible.

"Is this deep space cabin fever?" He muttered, looking directly at the starry sky again, his eyes full of determination.

It's not that Yue Yuan was not affected, it's just that he knew the source of isolation and loneliness.

It's because humans are too small and immature.

Yue Yuan remembered the first time he looked up at the starry sky. He felt yearning at first, and then became more and more fascinated as he looked. Then he felt the gap between vastness and insignificance, and then a feeling of emptiness and loneliness came to his heart.

The feeling of being in the dark starry sky now is like the feeling that it felt at that time has been magnified countless times.

"Light of the Milky Way, close the skylight!" Yue Yuan ordered the intelligent AI, then turned and left the control center.

It has been two months since the first batch of hibernating personnel woke up, and they should have almost adapted. It is also time for Yue Yuan to hibernate.

Before entering hibernation, Yue Yuan called Zhu Pite, who had woken up two months ago for his shift, to come over and talk for a while.

Yue Yuan is not worried that there will be problems with the new government after he goes into hibernation. Although his power has reached the point of dictatorship, he has not yet reached the point where he is alone.

The main purpose of talking to Zhu Pite was to explain some precautions and safety matters on duty.

After finishing, Yue Yuan came to his exclusive room.

This is a separate hibernation room with only one hibernation cabin inside. As the supreme leader of civilization, Yue Yuan has this treatment.

And for the sake of safety, if you want to enter this room, you must be the top leader during the shift, and you also need sufficient reasons. Otherwise, the intelligent AI Tianhe Light door will not be opened. If the door is opened, it means that the intelligent AI Tianhe Light will open the door. The light has awakened Yue Yuan.

Yue Yuan, who has the only T0 authority, followed the guidance of the artificial intelligence AI Tianhe Light, put on the special hibernation clothes, swallowed the hibernation medicine in one gulp, and then lay down in the hibernation cabin and fell asleep quietly.

Hibernation pills can protect the human brain and other organs, and also have a sleep-inducing effect.

After he fell asleep, the system of the hibernation cabin was officially activated, taking him from normal sleep into deep cold hibernation.

As Yue Yuan entered hibernation, mankind's thousand-year journey also entered the second stage - inertial navigation.

This is the longest stage of mankind's voyage. From the moment the three huge thrusters were shut down to the moment they were restarted, it took about nine hundred years.

During this long time, the Hope will carry sleeping humans across the boundless sea of ​​stars to the other side of hope.