Chapter 212 Hibernation
Wei Feng has been sailing for more than three months. Le-Wen because the acceleration calculation of the spacecraft had a little mistake that was inconsistent with reality, the original three-month acceleration plan was not completed until now. However, this will not affect Wei Feng's navigation plan within the allowable error range.
At this moment, the main engine of the spacecraft has been turned off, and the Xinghai spacecraft has entered the inertial navigation mode. This means that the inertial force that has plagued Wei Feng for more than three months has finally disappeared. Wei Feng can finally stand up straight without having to stand incline as before.
If there is no accident, the next hundreds of years of voyages will be left to the artificial intelligence "Ye Luo" to operate. Ye Luo will work continuously and continuously repair the route through the neutron star positioning system. If the route deviates due to the existence of space dust clouds or other reasons, Ye Luo will start the auxiliary engine to correct the spacecraft's route.
Now, the speed of the Star Sea spacecraft is 3,000 kilometers per second. Now, Weifeng is 12 billion kilometers away from the Sun.
But Wei Feng knew that he had not yet broken the long-distance voyage record set by human civilization. More than 20 years ago, an outstanding Tian family in human civilization led his team to sail on the "Full Voyage" scientific research ship for a full year, sailed for 50 billion kilometers, and stayed there for more than a month before returning.
To catch up with this record, Weifeng needs to continue sailing for about five months. The distance of 50 billion kilometers is an unimaginable number, but this number is still a bit insignificant than what Weifeng is about to sail.
Before Weifeng, the record of human voyage was 50 billion kilometers. Now, Weifeng has to sail about 42 trillion kilometers. The difference seems to be a bit big. It is difficult to accept that from 50 billion to 42 trillion at once, but Weifeng knows that this is not the case.
If human civilization needs it, human civilization can send a spacecraft to sail a distance of 100 billion or even a trillion kilometers. But this has no meaning. Because the outer solar system is really empty, there is no star body here that can arouse the interest of human civilization. It is really not worth the effort to rush to record the long distance. It is precisely because of this situation as a prerequisite that jumping from 50 billion to 42 trillion will happen truly now.
Although he had not caught up with the Tian family, Wei Feng felt the same loneliness as the Tian family, even more so. Because the Tian family was not alone, and Wei Feng was the only one in the Xinghai spacecraft at this moment.
Outside the window is eternal darkness and emptiness. Although from a large scale, the material density here is still extremely high, and countless Neptune celestial bodies exist here. But in Wei Feng's field of vision, Wei Feng can't see anything.
Not only is it not empty, but even if we advance another trillion kilometers or even a light year, it is still not empty from a large scale. Various asteroids, comets, interstellar dust, and star fragments are filled here, quietly revolving around the sun in endless darkness and loneliness, like ghosts walking in the dark night. They never intersect with humans.
Although they are numerous, Wei Feng can't see anything.
The last time I got in touch with the Earth was half a month ago. At that time, in order to test the performance of the high-power array antenna, Wei Feng said "Hello" to the Earth, and after waiting for nearly a day, he received an "ok" response. Apart from that, Wei Feng did not talk to anyone else.
Ye Luo said a lot, but Wei Feng knew that what Ye Luo said was recorded and stored in the database in advance. Even if it acted like a human, it was always just a program.
If nothing unexpected happens, Wei Feng knew that in the next few hundred years, he would no longer contact the earth. But Ye Luo would be different. Every few months, Ye Luo would package the comprehensive operation of the hull of the Star Sea spacecraft and some data obtained during its voyage back to the earth. But this job has nothing to do with Wei Feng.
If Wei Feng is willing, Wei Feng can of course record a piece of speech and hand it over to Ye Luo, and let Ye Luo send his audio and video information to the earth together. However, Wei Feng didn't know who to talk to, so he simply saved this procedure.
The time when we first set off was boring. The Xinghai spacecraft was new. There were no faults that Wei Feng had to eliminate during the initial period, and there were no scientific research tasks that Wei Feng needed to do. The reason why Wei Feng was kept awake and did not let Wei Feng hibernate was just for insurance considerations.
Now that the acceleration phase has passed, Wei Feng is about to hibernate.
Wei Feng left his seat and came to the spacecraft porthole again. He looked at the endless starry sky outside in a daze. After looking for a while, Wei Feng said, "Ye Luo, please prepare a dinner for me."
Ye Luo replied: "Sorry, Captain, according to the original plan, you should be ready to hibernate now. You are not suitable for eating before hibernation."
"Is that true?" Wei Feng sighed and said, "Okay then."
Wei Feng gave up his plan to eat, although Wei Feng felt a little hungry at this moment. After communicating with Ye Luo, Ye Luo began to prepare some of Wei Feng’s preparations before hibernation. Wei Feng came to the entertainment station and called out a small game, passing the time a little bored.
Ye Luo's preparation lasted for more than an hour, and Wei Feng also ended the game between himself and the computer at this time. Wei Feng took off his clothes and came to the hibernation room. There was already a coffin-like device there, and the lid had been opened.
Wei Feng lay in, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and then closed his eyes.
"Ye Luo, you can start." Wei Feng said.
"Okay, please rest assured that I will wake you up in ten years. During your ten years of sleep, everything on the spacecraft will be controlled by me. Finally, I confirm with you, do you need to set the emergency wake-up preset conditions?"
If the spacecraft has an accident when Wei Feng is sleeping and Ye Luo cannot deal with it by himself, then Ye Luo needs to wake Wei Feng up to face the dilemma. Under normal circumstances, whether to wake Wei Feng up urgently is determined by Ye Luo himself, but as the captain, Wei Feng naturally has the authority to modify this condition. Wei Feng can set some conditions such as "Wake me up when I receive an unknown signal" or "Wake me up when I encounter an unknown star body".
Wei Feng thought for a while and replied, "No need to set it up, you can control everything. If you think you need to wake me up, then wake me up."
"Okay Captain, I understand, I wish you a good dream. The countdown to hibernation begins now, three, two, one, zero..."
During the countdown, the door of the hibernation cabin slowly closed. After Ye Luo said the number zero, some powerful anesthetics were first released in the hibernation cabin. The moment he came into contact with these anesthetics, Wei Feng fell into a coma.
Wei Feng fell into a coma, but Ye Luo's work continued. Even if no one was listening to Ye Luo's speech at this moment, Ye Luo's voice continued to come out: "It has been confirmed that the captain has entered a coma state. The nutrient solution has begun to be released..."
The hibernation compartment was gradually filled with light blue liquid, and Wei Feng was lying in the hibernation compartment motionless. It was not until the hibernation compartment was filled with this liquid that the sound of leaves falling again came: "Prepare to refrigerate at minus 260 degrees...refrigeration was successful."
“Close the power supply of the lighting system…close successfully.”
After this sentence, all the lighting equipment of the entire Xinghai spacecraft was turned off. Except for some sensor parts that require visible light as monitoring conditions, the entire spacecraft has fallen into complete darkness.
"Switch off the temperature control device... shut down successfully."
From now on, except for some components that require a constant temperature working environment, the temperatures of each cabin and module of the spacecraft will slowly drop, and eventually drop to the same temperature as the external universe environment.
"Shut down the air circulation equipment...recover gas...successfully."
From now on, except for special needs, all chambers and modules will be restored to vacuum and all gases will be recycled for next use.
Without air, Ye Luo's sound disappeared. But Ye Luo's movements still did not stop. If Wei Feng was still awake, Wei Feng would know that in the next step, Ye Luo would close all non-core components of the entire spacecraft, leaving only some important components such as central computers, central sensors, radar wave monitoring equipment, emergency communication equipment, etc.
All of this is based on one purpose, which is to save fuel and energy. If these components have been working, they will not last for a thousand years, not even a hundred years.
From now on, the Star Sea spacecraft will be as cold and dark as the empty universe outside. Except for the little warmth in its "heart" area, it has no essential difference from the stones in the universe.
Chapter completed!