Epoch of Twilight

When the time came to May 2019, a new department called "Spaceship Internal Security Administration" was quietly established.

On the first day of its establishment, an internal rectification document for the factory and research institute was issued.

First: Any items that can move freely in the spaceship must be locked with the concealed buttons on the deck. Some light tools that must be moved should be placed in a fixed storage box at any time after use.

Second: The internal walls of the factory need to be equipped with flexible packaging.

Third: Assess the stability and danger of some vibration-sensitive equipment.

Fourth: All factories and institutions must strictly abide by the safety production regulations issued by the government, and must not violate them arbitrarily.

...

In the following month, the "Spaceship Internal Security Management Bureau" almost went all out, and began to carefully inspect the rectification of major factories and institutions one by one.

Next, this trend of rectification moved to the community, and even went deep into every household.

The atmosphere inside the spaceship became more solemn, and some sensitive people had already vaguely anticipated something.

And on the last day of May, all the factories and research institutes, and even most of the government personnel, were on holiday, and everyone began to know that the behemoth under their feet was about to undergo its first trial voyage.

An atmosphere of uneasiness hangs over the whole society. Maybe it’s because they’ve lived for a long time, and soon people almost forget that what’s under their feet is not some land, but a huge spaceship. Human beings are by no means truly peaceful. Humanity is about to flee.

...

The next morning, the originally noisy residential area became extremely quiet, and the streets were also empty.

"Dear residents, the spaceship is about to undergo its first sea trial. All residents, please bind safety devices and don't walk around randomly... This sea trial will start at 8:30, last for five hours, and end at 1:30 in the afternoon. For more information, please Check the news network." At eight o'clock in the morning, a soft electronic voice sounded over the residential area.

Hearing the warning sound of the imminent sea trial, Cui Weichuan secretly took a deep breath.

The family of three had already strapped on the safety gear early, and the nervous little face of the daughter next to her was already pale, and she asked crisply, "Daddy, will we be fine?"

Cui Weichuan quickly squeezed out a stiff smile, pretending to be relaxed and said: "Don't worry, you know that small spaceship?"

"The one we came to take?" The daughter replied with a scared face.

"That's right, you only sat on that boat once, but Dad has sat on it several times, and nothing happened. It's comfortable to sit on, without any bumps, and you don't feel anything. Suddenly, the earth is here. And Our spaceship is more advanced than that small one, and it will be absolutely fine, so please rest assured.

In fact, for Dad, this time it was a bit of a fuss. This kind of spaceship must be more stable in flight, and it is estimated that there will be no bumps! "

"It's for safety. Didn't you have to wear a seat belt before driving?" The daughter smiled crisply, her expression relaxed a lot.

After Cui Weichuan comforted the younger one, he began to care about the older one again.

"This safety device won't affect your stomach, right?" Cui Weichuan looked at his wife's big belly and asked worriedly. Although at that time, he was not very willing to let his wife use new technology to conceive. After all, he didn't know if the genetically modified child was his own. In case the child was born without any similarity, it would be a shock in his heart to be rumored. However, Seeing his wife's obsessed look at the beginning, he finally chose to agree.

Now his wife has been pregnant for nearly nine months, and is about to enter the waiting period. Who knows, the sea trial is today, and it will be a month later.

"This is for pregnant women, it will be fine!" The wife rubbed her belly nervously and said in relief.

Cui Weichuan looked at the bloated spacesuit-like safety device and heaved a sigh of relief. It has to be said that the government attaches great importance to these pregnant women. Today, the safety device has also been replaced with a special one for breeding.

At this time, the wife suddenly frowned slightly, covered her stomach, and looked pained.

"What's the matter?" Cui Weichuan's heart tightened, and he asked quickly, "Is it going to be a baby?"

"No, the baby is kicking me again!" The wife calmed down a bit, let out a breath, and said coquettishly, "His strength is so strong, his stomach is almost torn, and he must be a mischievous ghost in the future."

Of course, it is powerful. If this batch of new humans were placed before the end of the world, each of them would be at the superhuman level. If it weren't for the relatively strong quality of today's people, it would be really not easy to reproduce them.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and with the repeated warning sound of the horn outside, it will soon be half past eight.

Everyone held their breath at this moment.

...

At this time, the eight groups of huge engine nozzles with a diameter of more than 40 meters distributed on both sides of the tail of the spaceship began to warm up, and the raging high-temperature flames spewed out intermittently. After a few seconds, the spaceship began to vibrate undetectably, and then Flying slowly at a snail's pace.

In a few minutes, the flames transformed into streams of pulsating light, like streamers, embellishing the dark space with strange lights.

The speed of the spacecraft began to accelerate slowly, and the speed gradually increased.

A meteorite flying towards this side at high speed, before it hit the spaceship, was hit by a high-energy laser beam from nowhere, and instantly vaporized into nothingness.

At this time, the central control cabin of the spaceship was full of seats.

Not only the crew of the spaceship, but Luo Yuan and all high-level officials gathered together to pay close attention to this test flight.

"The spaceship is continuing to accelerate... 1 km/s!"

"1.1 kilometers per second!"

"1.2 kilometers per second!"

Because it is the first test voyage, everything is based on stability, and the acceleration of the spacecraft is quite slow.

On the five or six sides of the giant three-dimensional screen on the left side of the main console, countless data and calculation formulas are changing rapidly, and most of them disappear in a flash. For most ordinary people, just looking at these data, It can make people dizzy.

Piloting a spaceship moving at high speed is an extremely complicated matter.

Not only will you encounter meteorites in space at any time, but the gravity of nearby planets and stars will also affect the course of the spacecraft.

This involves a lot of calculations. The spacecraft needs to calculate the trajectory of each meteorite in advance, and at the same time continuously correct the course of the spacecraft. Without a powerful main control brain, it undertakes a lot of calculations. Luck, good luck, safe and sound, bad luck, the ship will be destroyed.

These data are boring and tedious, except for the mathematicians who took the wisdom potion and silently checked the calculations in their hearts, few noticed it.

Most of the high-level eyes are on the virtual reality scene in the center.

The virtual reality picture looks much brighter than the real outside world. You can even see meteorites passing by from a distance, but meteorites are not common. Most of the time, you can only look at the ones in the distance that are brighter than those on the earth. starlight.

During the flight, all operations are basically handed over to the intelligent brain. The crew does not need to do additional operations. Unless they need to issue new instructions, they basically only play an auxiliary role. After all, compared with humans, in the face of accidents, intelligent The reaction of the brain is faster, it does not have reflex arcs, and does not need peripheral buttons. It is controlled indirectly. As long as the command is issued, the various systems of the spacecraft can respond immediately. Everything is only related to its logical computing ability. It is undoubtedly countless times that of human beings.

Even Luo Yuan is far from being able to compare. This is a natural gap. No matter how strong the biological intelligence is, it cannot compare with a super quantum computer with 100,000 qubits in computing power. Perhaps only a completely four-dimensional brain, to be compared with it.

...

With the passage of time, the speed of the spacecraft has gradually approached 100 kilometers per second, and a brown planet appeared in the line of sight. This is the eight planets—Venus, and it is also the direction of this flight.

The reason why we flew towards Venus instead of Mars is because there is a meteorite belt between the earth and Mars, and the environment is complicated. As the first test voyage, safety is undoubtedly the first priority.

The distance is still far away at this time, and this planet, which is about the size of the earth, hangs quietly in the sky like a brown marble.

"Enlarge Venus!" Luo Yuan looked at it for a while, and then said.

"Yes, Your Excellency, Captain!" Zhinao immediately responded to Luo Yuan's order.

The virtual reality scene on the central screen was immediately split into two halves. The orange planet began to zoom in rapidly, quickly occupying half of the screen, but it continued to zoom in. The three-dimensional screen had a certain sense of immersion, plus The high-definition picture makes people feel as if the body is falling towards the planet.

But in a few seconds, the camera has penetrated into the atmosphere. It is not as peaceful and peaceful as when viewed from a distance. The turbulent atmosphere is flowing at high speed, setting off a terrifying storm. Compared with the typhoon here, the typhoon on the earth can only be regarded as a light breeze. It's raining, perhaps only those few days can be compared after the antimatter bomb destroys human beings.

It has to be said that the detection system on this spacecraft is terrible, and its picture is still zooming in. After a while, it has passed through the dense atmosphere and entered the ground.

This is a hell that exudes a destructive atmosphere. Volcanoes and magma are everywhere in the eyes. At the same time, the rich acidic gas has corroded the peaks here into thousands of holes and jagged rocks.

Most of the people here are facing the scene of alien stars for the first time, and they can't help but feel shocked when they see it.

"According to the detection, this is a rocky planet, radius: 6051.8 kilometers, gravity: 0.9g... The surface temperature is about 400 degrees, the pressure is 90 times that of the earth, and 97% of the air is carbon dioxide. And it contains a lot of water, the transformation value is low, and it is suggested that it can be used as a mining planet."

Regarding Zhinao's suggestion, Luo Yuan smiled bitterly in his heart. They will leave the earth soon, and perhaps for most people here, it will be difficult to return before their lifetime.