Chapter 227 Bad News
Although Wei Feng really wanted that black hole, under the current circumstances, it was lucky enough to be able to obtain the other instruments. Wei Feng really didn't dare to ask for too much...
However, after reaching the conclusion that there was a miniature black hole there, Wei Feng recalled some other things. It happened hundreds of years ago and only a small number of people knew about it.
As time passed slowly and the strict confidentiality of government agencies, the details and truth of the matter had long been obscured into the dust of history. Wei Feng only heard some verbal news from hearsay.
Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, human civilization encountered an extremely serious crisis. A piece of Robachevsky space enveloped the space where the earth is. If we do not find a way to cut off the connection between the earth and the Robachevsky space, the earth will fall into the unknown universe with it. The final result is of course that human civilization solved the crisis, but Wei Feng heard several different versions of the solution to the crisis.
Some say that with the joint efforts of tens of thousands of scientists in the scientific research department, space was blocked through the method of explosion of a large-equivalent hydrogen bomb, some say that a mysterious person corrected a data in the plan at a critical moment, and made a modification to the original blocking plan, which finally saved the earth. Some say that human civilization finally relied on a large amount of energy released by a dying micro black hole to finally achieve the purpose of blocking space.
History has been too long, and Wei Feng can no longer restore the truth of what happened hundreds of years ago. Wei Feng can only feel the thrilling and magnificent era through these broken fragments. Originally, this incident could only become Wei Feng's topic of conversation after dinner, but now, this past event has been reeled.
"If there really is a micro black hole here... Then, hundreds of years ago, human civilization finally relied on another micro black hole to solve the star disaster. This is completely possible... Then I might as well assume that if human civilization really mastered a micro black hole, where did that black hole come from? It would never be made by human civilization itself. Because even now, we do not have the ability to create micro black holes."
"If you speculate like this, things will become much more interesting. It is very likely that the micro black hole that was originally obtained from similar relics of unknown civilizations. If you say this, human civilization has long known about the existence of unknown alien civilizations?"
"Well... I reported to the Earth some time ago that I found a fragment of the creation of an unknown civilization. At that time, I was surprised by the calm reaction of the Earth. If they had known about the existence of unknown alien civilizations, then this reaction could be reasonably explained."
Wei Feng thought thoughtfully, and the more he analyzed it, the more he felt that his reasoning was very reasonable. But then, Wei Feng's heart moved again. Wei Feng thought of another question.
"How much do the Earth know about the existence of this alien civilization? How much did they know? Have they expected that my voyage might encounter unknown alien civilization creations? If they had expected this situation a long time ago, why didn't they tell me?"
These problems are actually very likely because Wei Feng was thinking too much, and the actual situation is not so complicated at all. Maybe the government has not grasped much of the alien civilization situation, or maybe the government has not expected Wei Feng to encounter unknown alien civilization creations, or maybe the government originally thought that it was not necessary to explain all this to Wei Feng for the sake of confidentiality. In short, there are too many possibilities, and Wei Feng was completely unable to determine which actual situation was.
But...human is such a strange animal. If a thought comes to mind, as long as it has a slight possibility, it will take root in its thoughts and begin to spread beyond human control.
As the thought continued to spread, Wei Feng finally had an idea in his mind: "Is this interstellar voyage... really just an interstellar voyage? Is there any secret behind this matter that I don't know, or... there are other purposes? If there are any other purposes, then what will it be? Or there are some things or events in the South Gate Two Galaxy, which require me to perform certain tasks, and for some reason I concealed them from the beginning?"
"If there are any other purposes and they did not tell me clearly in advance, then the only way to ensure that the purpose is achieved can only fall on the intelligent program Yeluo. Because I am too far from the earth, they have no ability to control me at all. Could it be that... Yeluo may also deliberately deceive me for some purposes?"
From this speculation, as well as some rumors that have been circulating for hundreds of years, Wei Feng thought of many things. It can be said that there is no evidence to prove any of these events, but in the same way, Wei Feng has no evidence to prove them. Wei Feng just vaguely felt something was wrong. As for whether these are wrong, or whether they are really wrong, they can only wait for time to finally verify it.
Wei Feng shook his head vigorously and barely threw the chaotic thoughts in his heart outside. At this moment, Ye Luo's voice reached Wei Feng's ears: "Captain, what are you going to do next?"
Wei Feng replied: "Now the distance between us and that alien device is too far, and the communication delay is too long. I don't have enough time to carry out the task of capturing it, so I can only hand over this task to you. In this way, I will transform a powered maintenance equipment, and then you set the program for it to go to the alien device on its own, and choose the solution to disassemble the mass core according to the actual situation. In this process, you have to transmit the specific navigation orbit parameters to the four thrusters, so that they can move closer to the spacecraft after the disassembly is successful."
"I need to remind you, Captain." Ye Luo said calmly. "After a while, because the distance is too long, we will lose the signal connection with the four thrusters. This means that we can no longer obtain any information about the alien device. Whether the program we set will be successful in the end, and whether it will eventually move closer to us like it is scheduled, everything is unknown."
"Do we have any other way?" Wei Feng shrugged helplessly, "This is our last hope."
"Well, Captain, there is one thing that needs to be told to you. Even if we estimate it based on the most optimistic situation, it will take at least two hundred years for those four thrusters to push the alien device to our spacecraft. During these two hundred years, we have no other way except waiting. Even if the mission ultimately fails, we cannot know what the cause of the mission failure is. Where it is and what situation it is, we cannot know."
"I am mentally prepared enough." Wei Feng said, "This is a very slim thing. Don't say much, Ye Luo, you start editing the program, I'll modify and repair the instrument."
"Okay captain."
It took Wei Feng three days to transform this repair instrument. After three days, Ye Luo sent the strange guy out again. It was equipped with many repair and disassembly tools, and its storage module stored many repair plans. Before it arrived at the alien device, Ye Luo would lose contact with it. After losing contact, all its behaviors will be determined by pre-stored programs.
Although Ye Luo had imagined as many unexpected situations as possible and formulated a response plan, only God knows whether the situation encountered by this maintenance instrument was in advance. Sending this maintenance instrument was only the last effort Wei Feng made. As for the result, it depends entirely on luck.
Wei Feng entered hibernation again, then woke up again, and then fell asleep again... Time passed quietly in the constant awakening and deep sleep. Wei Feng still knew nothing about the final result of the alien device.
Every time he wakes up, Wei Feng will receive many notices from the Time Traveler team. Wei Feng will respond to these letters in detail and seriously every time. The purpose of this is to report safety to the earth, and on the other hand, only by maintaining such letter exchanges can Wei Feng not feel that he is an orphan without a hometown.
But there is always no good news from the letters sent by the Time Traveler team. The situation of human civilization seems to be getting worse and worse. After waking up for the tenth time, that is, it has been more than a hundred years since Wei Feng sailed nearly one light-year away, Wei Feng received two worst news from the Time Traveler team.
The first news is that the theory that "the upper limit of conventional propulsion is 4,500 kilometers per second" has been officially confirmed. This means that if the technology of human civilization does not make a leap again, human civilization will never be able to break through this speed with universal technologies with the potential for large-scale application.
The second news is that the energy output of Jupiter and Saturn, the two most important resource planets, has reached the upper limit. If more advanced technologies are not born, their energy output can no longer be increased.
Chapter completed!