"It’s time to go ….." Wei Feng sighed and then walked out of this base and returned to the Xinghai spacecraft again on the landing spacecraft.
"Captain, we really should go, but we don’t have enough fuel. I think now you can tell me what you have figured out to send these data back to the sun."
"It’s very simple," Wei Feng said with a smile. "I mean, I thought of a way to send these data back to the sun, but I didn’t say that I would send myself back to the middle of the sun. Go back to the sun with these data. I won’t go. I’ll leave this blue night sky and this starry sky with me."
The leaves were silent for a long time, and Wei Feng kept pacing and sighing in the control cabin. "That Martian has been here for hundreds of millions of years. I think it must be very lonely … It is the last Martian. If our luck is not good enough, maybe I am the last human. We were both born in the sun. We have the same hometown … Let me accompany him here."
Chapter two hundred and sixty-seven Future hope
"Captain, are you sure … you want to stay here?" After a long silence, Ye Luo finally said this sentence.
"yeah, what else can I do?" Wei Feng smiled and said, "You and I both stay on this planet, so let me stay alone."
Leaves fall into silence again.
Strictly speaking, Wei Feng said that this is indeed a way. If Wei Feng doesn’t go back, it means that many equipment and materials of Xinghai spacecraft can be dismantled. First, the life-sustaining materials can be dismantled. The hundreds of tons of food and drinking water will no longer occupy all the quality. The equipment added to maintain Wei Feng’s health, such as hibernation system, temperature control system, pressurization system and radiation protection system, can also be dismantled. The amount of fuel saved by stopping these equipment at the same time is also very considerable.
Not only that, but if we just send these key scientific data back to the sun, there will be more things to dismantle, such as all kinds of scientific equipment, huge flying cabins, etc. Xinghai spacecraft can complete this project by keeping some necessary equipment such as navigation system, propulsion system and maintenance system.
The combined mass of all these detachable things will be as high as 99% less than that of Xinghai spacecraft, that is to say, the total mass of Xinghai spacecraft will be reduced to 1% without changing the total fuel, and the consumption of residual fuel during the voyage will also be greatly reduced, so it is absolutely possible to send the leaves back to the sun by relying on the existing fuel.
This is Wei Feng’s idea that it is so simple but it seems … so cruel.
This is the ancient desolate Nanmen two stars, which are so close to the sun but so far away. These two stars are so far away that they have spent their whole lives crossing this journey in Wei Feng.
Leaves fall in silence, but Wei Feng still smiles. The avant-garde wind has come up with this idea for a long time. It has been in Wei Feng’s heart for a long time, and Wei Feng is very calm at the moment.
Wei Feng walked to the porthole and stared at the bright star in the celestial sphere. It just hung on the horizon and quietly released its own light. Except for this light spot, Wei Feng couldn’t see more information about the star, but Wei Feng knew that there were many people around the star and many things were born there and then left there …
"When I look at that star, I don’t know if anyone in the sun is looking at it at the same time …" Wei Feng sighed and said, "I think it’s probably not. It’s almost 500 years since my time, and all my past has been buried. Probably no one will remember that a man took this trip alone in a spaceship hundreds of years ago …"
"But it didn’t" Wei Feng still stared at the star seriously "You can forget me … but I won’t forget you. I will always remember that I came from that star and I will always remember that my name is Wei Feng and I am a … human being".
"Captain, are you sure you want to do this?" Ye Luo asked this question for the third time. Wei Feng turned around and looked at the place where the sound came out and said "of course"
"Well," Ye Luo said, "I am a program, and my mission is to help you complete your instructions. At the beginning, my manufacturer didn’t give me the power to interfere with your decision. Since you have made a decision, Captain … then I promise you that I will send these scientific data to the sun."
"It’s not so sad," Wei Feng said with a smile. "Maybe … we will meet again in the future. If we are lucky enough, if we still don’t have a hand to 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. At that time, I think someone will think that I will still be stranded in Nanmen two stars …"
Wei Feng speculates that it is not unreasonable that there will be a war because of lack of resources. This situation is like two beggars fighting over a piece of steamed bread. If I eat a piece of steamed bread, I can’t eat it, and I can’t eat it, which will lead to conflict. And if a rich man comes to tell them that they want to stop the conflict, there will be countless foods for them … Will these two people continue to fight?
Even a fool will stop the conflict at this time. This is exactly the case now. This key scientific data indicates that Aurora will be thoroughly studied in the future. Human culture will enable large-scale interstellar colonization. There will be countless planets waiting for humans to occupy. At that time, human beings will be afraid that there will be insufficient population to occupy so many planets and worry about where there will be insufficient resources.
So … if you want to send these data back to the sun, the war will definitely stop. This is the historical trend. It will shift the so-called wise man Junjie without a certain leader’s personal will. If a leader insists on waging war despite his own selfish interests and already has key scientific data, he will be alienated from others.
This means the great development of human science and technology, and indeed, as Wei Feng said, at that time, someone will come here to take Wei Feng home.
"I will carry all the raw materials in the hibernating spacecraft to the blue night star surface. I will use solar energy to maintain my hibernating energy source. I will go into a deep sleep until someone wakes me up." Wei Feng said, "So … I think we will meet again at that time."
Ye Luo is still silent. Although Ye Luo does not have independent self-awareness artificial intelligence, it is also quite intelligent. It can easily understand Wei Feng’s theory of discourse meaning. Is this meaning superficial or implied?
Ye Luo knew that although Wei Feng said he was optimistic, the actual situation was not the case.
To achieve the scene described by Wei Feng, there are several preconditions. First of all, Ye Luo must be able to send these scientific data back to the sun. Ye Luo is an artificial intelligence, and its ability is limited after all, but interstellar navigation is so long. No one knows what will happen in this process. So … Can Ye Luo really send these things back to the sun smoothly?
Sub-human culture, where has the war progressed at this moment? Maybe at this moment, with the drastic changes of the sun, the light will already be on the way to Nanmen two stars. Maybe at this moment, the changes of the sun will be observed by the leaves, and … Once the human culture is against the sun, the destruction of the human culture is almost a foregone conclusion.
Once again, even if Ye Luozhen successfully sent these key scientific data back to the sun, the human language is not as good as the sun’s hand … Can you really make a technological leap through these scientific data? After all, it has not been verified by practice, and the final result is judged according to the truth.
Even if these conditions are established, human civilization has made a scientific and technological leap and broken the deadlock, will Wei Feng really be safe? No, it won’t stop the war, and all kinds of forces will play a game. Post-war reconstruction, economic reconstruction and population recovery … These are the foundations of large-scale scientific research activities, and this process may be very long. In other words, even if all this goes well, it is unlikely that human culture will be taken back to Wei Feng in one thousand … How many changes will there be in one thousand? Can hibernation equipment last that long? What if the piece is damaged? What if I am hit by an asteroid? What should I do if hibernation is too long and Wei Feng wakes up?
The most likely outcome is that … human culture has not made a scientific and technological leap, and Wei Feng will never wake up. Wei Feng will always stay in the blue sky and accompany the Martian forever. This planet will become an eternal cemetery in Wei Feng.
It’s because I know that these things are falling that I keep silent, but … the reality is already like this. What else can I do if I don’t do this?
"Captain … I think we will have a chance to meet again." Ye Luo finally broke the silence. "In the meantime, please sleep on this blue night star. Please believe me, I will definitely come to take you home. This may be a long time. You may have to wait for hundreds of years or even a thousand years, but you must wait."
"Of course, artificial intelligence won’t lie. I naturally believe you when you tell me this." Wei Feng nodded with a smile. "So … let’s work. Xinghai spacecraft is a big guy. It’s not an easy thing to dismantle it."
"Good captain, please wait a moment. I will try to calculate the optimal disassembly scheme. We will try our best to keep more functions and reliability and reduce the mass of Xinghai spacecraft at most."
"Well, I know that you are good at it." Wei Feng nodded with a smile.
Chapter two hundred and sixty Orphans
Wei Feng was already familiar with Xinghai spacecraft when he was trained. Later, after hundreds of years of getting along with each other, Wei Feng can be said to know everything about Xinghai spacecraft. A certain part of the hull is like connecting a certain part, what function it undertakes, the layout of a certain line and so on. Wei Feng knows it.
All the leaves finally worked out three alternative disassembly schemes, and the defender quickly chose the best one from them and then went to work.
Xinghai spacecraft has worked hard in Wei Feng and shrunk rapidly. At the beginning, it took tens of millions of people to finally make it. Now it needs to be demolished … but Wei Feng needs a person.
Destruction is always easier than construction. At this moment, Wei Feng has perfectly verified this rule. Xinghai spacecraft is very windy. It is planned to be dismantled but it is very fragile. It is less than 90% and all kinds of lines have been dismantled. It looks very messy.
It took more than two months for the disassembly work to be declared complete, and then it was the reassembly work. Wei Feng needs to reassemble the most critical equipment and ensure its reliability as much as possible.
The amount of assembling work is much smaller than that of the previous disassembly work, but it requires higher precision. Wei Feng knows that he must put all his energy into this working face, and there can be no negligence, because his work will go directly to the leaf fall and whether it can return to the sun smoothly. If the plan fails finally just because a certain solder joint is not welded well or because a certain connection is not firm enough, the human culture may perish.