When people look up at the starry sky, the stars they see may have fallen long ago, and the bright and dazzling light may be just their afterimages that have traveled thousands of light years.
Maybe one day, our home will be destroyed, but at least before it is destroyed, we should shine like those stars and tell this lonely universe that we have been here.
In the Barnard Galaxy, which our ancestors only dreamed of setting foot in, we finally received a group of special visitors. Perhaps the visitors did not arrive very quickly, but they came from another galaxy far away. They used up all the resources they had. All technology took hundreds of years to get here.
May 5, interstellar year 336, is a special day. Tiangong represents the first time that Earth civilization visits Barnard's star system. On this day, Tiangong officially enters the gravitational range of Barnard's star.
Barnard's Star is a very small red dwarf star located near Beta Ophiuchi and northwest of 66 Ophiuchi, only about 6 light-years away from the Earth.
Over the past hundreds of years, scientists aboard Tiangong have made continuous breakthroughs in energy conversion and power engines, allowing Tiangong's speed to reach new heights.
The original plan was to arrive in Barnard's system in the interstellar year 810, but the Tiangong arrived in the interstellar year 336. This undoubtedly gave the soldiers and civilians on the Tiangong a shot in the arm, giving them more confidence in this migration. .
Barnard's star is a very old star. Its mass is about 17% of the sun, its diameter is about 1/6 of the sun, and its diameter is equivalent to only 20 times the size of the earth.
Barnard's Star has two planets; one of them, named Kura, has an orbital period of 11.7 years, an orbital semi-major axis of about 2.7 AU, and a mass of about 0.8 times that of Jupiter;
Another Magatama star has 20 years, 3.8 AU and about 0.4 times.
There is a light white star ring around Magatama, and the star ring is filled with a large number of ice meteorites. These ice meteorites will provide Tiangong with abundant water resources.
Tiangong needs to use the gravity of Magatama and its own reverse thrust to reduce its speed from one-eighth of the speed of light to one-thousandth of the speed of light.
The process of Tiangong's deceleration will attract a large number of ice meteorites to approach, which will be an opportunity for Tiangong to collect water resources.
Looking at Tiangong from the sea of stars, you can see the sparse light emitted by Tiangong.
Area A7 of the Tiangonghao living area.
The whistle of the maglev car sounded, and the people nearby raised their heads in confusion and looked at the car that suddenly appeared. After all, cars here are not common.
The door of the maglev car opened, and several ragged figures were pushed out.
"You untouchables! You're going to die here!" After a fierce-looking man left these words, the maglev car drove away quickly.
Pedestrians passing by looked at everything that happened in front of them coldly. They had long been accustomed to this kind of thing. Every day, many people tried to sneak into Area A1 and were sent back after being discovered.
Most of these ragged people were injured. After they recovered, they got up and left.
Only a little girl of seven or eight years old did not get up. Instead, she threw herself on the ground and cried. She looked at the strange environment around her with curiosity and confusion, feeling both novel and frightened.
After all, the entire narrow street is full of people in ragged clothes. They look at the girl with indifference, greed, but more importantly, they have a look that has nothing to do with them. It seems to have lost its light.
Just as several skinny men stretched out their dirty hands to the girl, a huge force knocked these men to the ground, and the cloak swept them and quickly picked up the girl on the ground.
"Fangvis, it's you again!"
The man ignored the roar from behind and carried the girl to a street corner while turning left and right.
"Where is your family?" the man said in a clear voice.
Yin said softly.
"My mother was taken away..." As if seeing the handsome face of her elder brother in front of her, the little girl stopped crying and replied in a sweet voice.
Fang Weiss scratched his head. He originally thought he could send the little girl back to her parents safely, but he didn't want to pick up a tow bottle.
"Then do you have somewhere you want to go? I can take you there," Fang Weiss said with a kind yet awkward smile.
Girl: (?_?)
"Emmmm, there's no way I can take you home," Fang Weiss said helplessly.
Girl: (?﹏?)
Fang Weiss looked at the frail old men next to him and saw some messy debris in front of them, with flies and mosquitoes flying around on the debris.
Some people were lying motionless on the ground. It was unclear whether they were weak or fainted from hunger. No one came forward to care. Most of them just walked by and had no interest in taking a second look. They had long been accustomed to it.
Some of the scattered shops on the street only have small windows open, and occasionally some cleanly dressed people go to buy some daily necessities.
Fang Weiss: ..(??ˇ?ˇ??)…
"What's your name?" Fang Weiss asked, pinching the little girl's pink face. He couldn't bear to leave the little girl here.
"Zino" the girl said softly.
Fang Weiss led Zino towards the grocery store in the distance. Just as they left the corner of the street, there was a commotion not far ahead.
Seven robot policemen were blocking the street to screen the identities of passers-by. Two men were pushed to the ground by the two robot policemen.
"Please line up in accordance with the order and undergo identity screening." The mechanical police patrolled back and forth around the crowd with standard weapons.
"Don't touch me! You ugly things!" A ragged middle-aged man struggled to shout as his arm was clamped by a mechanical policeman.
Fang Weiss looked sideways at the scene in front of him and frowned, "Zino, do you have an identity bracelet?"
Zino shook her head in understanding, obviously she had nothing on her body.
"It has been inspected and can be passed." After the mechanical policeman finished speaking in a cold voice, he let go of the middle-aged man.
Fang Weiss picked up Zinuo and covered him with his cloak. His eyes quickly searched for the location of the seven mechanical policemen. There were three mechanical policemen on the side and behind, and two policemen controlled the four squatting on the ground. The person without an identification bracelet and the other maintained order in the rear.
Of the remaining four police officers, two blocked the intersection at the 11 o'clock direction, and two were screening back and forth at the two o'clock direction.
He crossed sideways to the front of the crowd. The swaying crowd was already crowded together, so Fangweis's crossing was not so abrupt.
When Fangweis came three meters away from the mechanical policeman on the right front, he glanced to the left and rear. The mechanical policeman behind him was already about to turn around and walk toward the back.
He looked to the front left again, and saw that the mechanical policeman at the front of the team was looking back and forth mechanically.
Now is not the time. Fang Weiss sees the two robot policemen on the right getting closer and closer. Now he can only hope that the robot policeman on the left will divert his attention within 10 seconds.
"Please show me your ID bracelet," the robot policeman said as he came to Fang Weiss.
"Okay, wait while I look for it." Fang Weiss didn't move. His eyes were looking at the mechanical policeman in front of him on the left, and he hadn't turned around yet.
"Please show me your ID bracelet." The robot policeman was already reaching out and ready to catch him.
Just now, when Fang Mobei saw the mechanical policeman on the left turning his attention, he immediately lifted his cloak. The huge cloak immediately blocked the sight of the two mechanical policemen around him.
He quickly pushed Zinuo out with his left hand. Zinuo's thin figure followed the force and darted through the queue, quickly disappearing into the crowd in front.
"Misdemeanor, citizen resisting the police." The mechanical policeman drew out the baton on his waist and prepared to hit Fang Weiss.
"I'm just going home, there's no need for this." Fang Weiss panicked and prepared to dodge the baton coming down on his head.
After the powerful mechanical arms of the mechanical police clamped down on Fang Weiss, several batons hit Fang Weiss.
"Ah—" Fang Weiss fell to the ground and groaned in pain, covering his left arm after being hit a few times.
"The zero-tolerance policy applies to all citizens below Class B," the robot policeman said after seeing the ID bracelet on Fang Weiss's left wrist.
"Inspection passed" the mechanical policeman checked Fangweis's bracelet and said "Thank you, citizen".
"No, thank you." Fang Weiss climbed up from the ground with difficulty, covered his arms and walked forward. He saw Zino waiting for him not far ahead.
Fang Weiss took Zino back home. He lived in a small house, only about twenty square meters, with only a workbench in addition to a bed.
Fang Weiss fell on the bed and took off his cloak and underwear with difficulty, revealing his solid muscles. He was just about to spray himself with some bruise spray, but found that Zino was staring at him blankly.
Fang Weiss was a little embarrassed after he reacted. He took out a canned fruit from the bedside table, opened it and handed it to Zino, "Eat something first, and I'll get you something to eat later."
After speaking, Fang Weiss endured the pain and sprayed the medicine on his left arm.
"My conditions here are like this. If you don't mind, you can stay here." Fang Weiss changed into a T-shirt, took out a sheet, spread it on the bed and patted it.
Fang Weiss looked at Zino who was holding a can of fruit and wolfing down the fruit, and shook his head, "I have to get you an identity bracelet, otherwise you won't be able to stay here."
He took out a can of milk and a piece of croissant from the cabinet and handed them to Zino. He recorded a three-dimensional image on Zino with his bracelet and walked out of the house.
After Fangweis left home, he turned left and right and came to a narrow alley. The alley was filled with an unpleasant smell.
A few skinny beggars were rummaging through a fly-filled, stinky garbage, looking for some scraps.
Fangweis has no mercy for these people, because he is not a savior, and he is also struggling in this chaotic era.
He quickly came to a black iron door. The black iron door had obviously been modified and was welded very strongly.
"Dong dong dong" Fang Weiss knocked hard twice with his hand.
A circular monitor on the black iron door turned its lens and focused on Fang Weiss.
"Click" the iron door opened in response. Fang Weiss looked around and saw that no one was there, then he gently pushed the door open and entered.
After entering the door, two rough men touched the weapons at their waists and looked at him cautiously.
Fang Weisi walked directly into the inner room without squinting. The room was not big. There was only a desk in it. Behind the desk, an Asian man in a colorful suit was playing with a lizard on his hand. There was a bodyguard beside him. Standing like an iron tower.
"Brother Chicken! Let me buy something from you." Fang Weiss greeted the Asian man behind the table with a smile.
"Xiao Fang! Long time no see." The man in the suit said happily when he saw it was Fang Weis. "Not to mention, you have the best craftsmanship among the mechanics in the entire A7 area!"
As he spoke, the man in the suit leaned back on the chair, reached out and lifted his right leg and placed it on the table, revealing a finely crafted mechanical leg."
Fang Weiss looked at Brother Chicken's right leg and his eyelids twitched unconsciously.