The first thing that changed was the earth. Almost in the blink of an eye, this blue planet became completely unrecognizable.
Obviously, it is still the earth, but it is not the earth Yang Yi saw in the photos, but a planet whose ecological environment has been severely damaged and is almost completely urbanized. There are hundreds of billions of inhabitants on this planet, which is not a big one. Not only on the surface of the planet, but also on the orbit of the planet. The planet's own resources have long been exhausted, and mankind has focused on other nearby planets, including the moon, the satellite of the earth, and two adjacent terrestrial planets, and even the satellites of several giant planets, to establish colonies on these planets. However, relative to the survival needs of trillions of people, resources are really pitiful, and mankind can only continue to expand outward.
The planetary ring in the geosynchronous orbit is not only a huge space city, but also a forward base for mankind.
Thousands of spacecraft set off from the planetary ring every day to various colonies distributed in the solar system, and almost the same number of spacecraft return from each colony. In addition to these transport spacecraft, there are also a large number of expedition spacecraft leaving or returning from time to time. However, the spacecraft that left far exceeded those that returned, and almost every spacecraft that returned was devastated, and some were even severely damaged.
In that era, aerospace exploration was the industry with the highest mortality rate. However, the return is also the highest.
Although in every ten expedition spacecraft, not necessarily one can return safely, and less than one-thousandth of it can return fully loaded, but as long as there is a harvest, even if only a celestial body made of rock is found, as long as the mass is huge enough, Can make explorers get rich overnight. If you find a celestial body made of heavy elements, or an ice comet, even if its orbit is determined, the wealth in exchange is enough for the enemy country. In the centuries at the end of the First Era, it was the amazing rewards that made aerospace exploration the most popular profession. At that time, the ideal of many people was to become an aerospace explorer, all they did was the dream of getting rich overnight.
At this time, an expedition spaceship without any characteristics appeared beside Yang Yi.
Like other expedition spacecraft, this expedition spacecraft first went to the first Lagrangian point after taking off, using the gravitational force of the earth and the moon to accelerate in order to save fuel. After that, follow the gravitational route, that is, make full use of the gravitational force of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune to fly to the outermost layer of the solar system to find valuable celestial bodies there, to be precise, large meteorites.
After hundreds of years of development, the large celestial bodies in the outer solar system, namely dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets, have long been developed and utilized by humans, even those celestial bodies with a diameter of more than one kilometer are no different. The ones that have not been developed or discovered are small celestial bodies with a diameter of about 100 meters. As long as you can find such a celestial body, and your luck is not too bad, there are some resources worth developing, such as heavy elements, to ensure that the expedition will not lose money. If luck is better, such as an ice comet, then as long as the celestial body is brought back to the earth, only the water brought back will be enough to make the explorer a rich man.
Of course, the vast majority of explorers have lost everything, and even took their lives.
The key point is that due to the limitations of aerospace technology, even the most advanced expedition spacecraft at the time would take ten or even twenty years for an expedition in the outer space of the solar system. During this period, only the explorer himself was very expensive. Under normal circumstances, an expedition ship usually has two explorers, and they have a close relationship, either a partner, a father and a son, or a sibling. If you get nothing in the ten to twenty years of expeditions, even if you come back alive, you will be faced with a debt-collecting bank, then you will become a pauper, and you will end your life in poverty. Because of this, many explorers would rather take risks than return empty-handed. Besides, in order to avoid creditors, some failed explorers will flee to a certain extrajudicial place, such as a remote colony. The result is that for every thousand explorers, there may not be even one who can really return home.
Of course, Yang Yi's grandfather and grandma are not in this list.
After a long voyage, the expedition spacecraft flew past the orbit of Pluto a few years later and entered the Oort Cloud, the outermost part of the solar system.
For the explorer, this is the place where the treasure is located, and it is also the cemetery.
Entering the Oort Cloud indicates that the expedition has officially begun.
It's just that there is no passion at all.
In fact, aerospace exploration is an extremely boring thing, because after a long voyage of several years, what is waiting for the explorer may be another period of exploration that lasts for several years, or even more than ten years, and then a period of several years. The return phase of the year. In these almost two decades, most of the time there is nothing to do. All the explorer has to do is to stare at the surroundings, re-plan the route based on findings, signs, or even personal guesses, and then continue to search. Good luck will bring rewards, and bad luck means doing useless work. In order to save costs and reduce costs, most expedition ships only have basic survival facilities and are not equipped with additional entertainment equipment. In fact, this is also the key to why the expedition spacecraft must carry at least two explorers, and the relationship between the explorers is relatively close. Human beings are social animals, and it is difficult to survive after leaving society, and society itself is the relationship between people, and two people are the smallest social unit.
When the huge object appeared, the picture quickly approached, and two people appeared, both wearing bulky-looking spacesuits.
It was not an object, but a strangely shaped spaceship with a pitch-black body.
The two explorers did not board the spacecraft, but flew around the spacecraft for a while, and then returned to the expedition spacecraft.
At this time, Yang Yi also entered the expedition spacecraft.
Two explorers have taken off their spacesuits, one of them is Yang Yi's grandfather, and looks like when he was young, and the other explorer is a beautiful woman.
grandmother
Yang Yi has seen a photo of grandma, but only once, and it is an old photo. Obviously, Yang Yi didn't expect his grandma to be a big beauty when she was young.
The two had a quarrel, and the quarrel was fierce.
As Yang Yi knew, grandpa thought that spaceship was too weird and felt that he should leave immediately and don’t cause trouble to herself, while grandma didn’t want to go for nothing, because they had spent more than half of their time and the rest The supply allows them to search for another three years at most, and then have to return, and in the next three years, the probability of finding a valuable celestial body is extremely slim. If they return empty-handed, they will lose everything.
After arguing for a long time, probably because both of them were tired from the quarrel, they stopped and then left separately.
Seeing this scene, Yang Yi couldn't help but smile.
"Obviously, you already know what's going to happen next."
The sudden voice frightened Yang Yi. When he turned around, he found a middle-aged man standing behind him.
He is a dazzling handsome man.
Although it can be seen that he is certainly not young, his appearance is very handsome, and he is so perfect that he is not like a big living person of flesh and blood.
"You are… "
"What happens next is the origin, or the cause of everything that happened later."
Yang Yi was taken aback for a moment, then sighed again.
Of course he knew that after the argument, grandma left the expedition spacecraft, went to the mysterious spaceship alone, and found out that she was pregnant shortly after returning.
"You can come here, and know this, it shows that your relationship with Yang Feng is extraordinary. If I guess right, he is your grandfather."
Yang Yi smiled reluctantly and said: "If I guessed correctly, you are his son, to be precise, an intelligent program that has his son's memory."
"Yes, but Yang Feng is not my father, at best he can only be regarded as my adoptive father."
Yang Yi did not deny it, after all, this is a fact.
"It's just that they know too little."
"Yes?"
"Besides, you don't know enough about it."
Yang Yi was taken aback for a moment, but then he realized that there is no secret in his consciousness in this place, so what he knows is not a secret either.
"As you guessed, this is a spaceship left by the creator. Then, why did the creator leave this spaceship?"
"Why?" Yang Yi asked directly, so as not to make mistakes.
"Obviously, the creator left the spaceship here, hoping to be found by mankind someday, and then used. The question is, if the creator wants to help mankind, why not leave this spaceship in something easier to find? Where?" The man smiled faintly and said, "Of course, you have guessed it. The creators don't want humans to discover this spaceship prematurely, and don’t want humans to cross the red line prematurely. In addition, if human technology is not enough Developed, even if you find this spacecraft, you may not be able to use it. Before that, the creator had tried it, but the result was very bad. So the creator left this spacecraft on the edge of the solar system..."
"What to try?"
The man didn't say much, just waved his hand gently.
The surrounding scenes changed, and Yang Yi found that he was back on the ground, to be precise, the earth, and the earth in ancient times.
"This… "
Looking at the desert in the distance and the pyramids standing in the desert, Yang Yi was stunned.
"Ancient Egypt, an ancient civilization of mankind, existed in the early first era."
"You mean..."
"You have already thought about it. Ancient Egypt built so many pyramids, not for the pharaoh, but for the ruler above the pharaoh, the creator who came to the earth at that time. It is a pity that the technology at that time was too backward, even at all. Science is irrelevant, so the help of the creators did not bring obvious results. After thousands of years, this ancient civilization favored by the creators decayed and perished."