human journey

Chapter 360 Oxidation Crisis
With the ultra-high speed of the spherical spacecraft, the time inside it is much slower than the outside world, but this does not have much impact on the golden tribesmen who enter the frozen state. Anyway, it only takes more than ten years in total.

But after flying for two or three light years, it was discovered through the sudden light waves that there was a huge energy fluctuation near the target planet Earth.

The intelligent system judged that such a sudden high-energy reaction must be caused by intelligent life, and it was not something it could resist, so it immediately started to slow down.It takes about 3000 years to fly a light-year at this speed from one-third of the speed of light to about [-] kilometers per second.

The ultimate goal set by the intelligent system is to protect the surviving Thousand Gold Tribesmen and continue civilization.However, unknown and powerful life has appeared on the earth, and it was very likely to be destroyed in the past.

There are no suitable planets nearby for settlement, so we have to slow down and fly slowly to carefully observe the situation on the earth.

After a long period of observation, the intelligent system found that no man-made aircraft appeared near the earth, which means that what is on the earth is not an intelligent civilization, but a super life like sending mechanical organisms to attack the golden race, which is not something it can fight against Yes, flying over will only lead to destruction.

So the intelligent system controlled the spacecraft to decelerate again, to only [-] meters per second, and continued to observe the earth in the silent universe.

Behind it is a huge flash of light produced by the annihilation reaction of positive and negative matter. The energy wave is chasing it at one tenth of the speed of light, but it will take decades to catch it, and the power of the energy wave It's not enough to be a threat.

The Barnard galaxy was disintegrated in the big bang, and the gaseous planets and gold were completely collapsed and turned into cosmic dust.The red dwarf star Barnard's star was pushed away from its original position by the super-strong explosion shock wave, and came towards the direction of the solar system.

The spherical spacecraft has been flying slowly in space for tens of millions of years. As it gets closer, it can clearly observe the conditions on the earth's surface and discover traces of intelligent life, but it has obviously not yet entered the industrial age and is very weak. .

Only then did the intelligent system figure out that the energy fluctuations that appeared hundreds of thousands of years ago were due to the existence of cosmic life that came near the earth and put their souls into the brains of some protobiotics on the earth, just like the soul ancestors of the golden race .

This matter is known by the Golden Race through the memory preserved in the "brain" of the ancestor.

Knowing this, the intelligent system believes that the intelligent life on the earth should not pose any threat to it at this time, so it activates the powerful antimatter engine, ejects a stream of ultra-strong high-energy particles, and accelerates to one-third the speed of light.

But not long after flying, the intelligent system discovered that two mechanical lifeforms that were not too big appeared to fight on the earth, and finally the mechanical lifeform that clearly belonged to the intelligent life of the earth won.

But at this time, a super-huge life form appeared on the earth satellite. It left something on the back of the satellite and then left.

Subsequently, a huge stream of high-energy particles appeared on the back of the satellite, and the entire satellite was pushed and crashed into the earth.However, the mechanical lifeforms on the earth solved this crisis in a way that the intelligent system could not understand, and restored the off-orbit satellite to normal.

The intelligent system thought that the mechanical life that might have died, if alive, would be able to easily defeat the spherical spaceship, and it began to slow down again.

At this time, the spacecraft is only more than one light-year away from the earth. It will continue to fly slowly and observe the situation of the earth before making a decision.

In order to prevent the spaceship from being discovered by mechanical life that might still be alive, it specially controls the spaceship to hit some passing small celestial bodies, causing the surface to fall with thick dust, disguised as an ordinary star.

Its speed remains at one hundred kilometers per second and will reach the vicinity of the Earth in several thousand years.Originally, it should not keep flying at this speed. It should be slower, and wait for new conditions on the earth to consider increasing or decreasing the speed.

However, the brains of one thousand gold people have problems during the tens of thousands of years of freezing. They can only persist for a few thousand years, and they will die in the freezing if they cannot be revived.

It cannot be thawed in advance. In order to save space in the spaceship and prevent the survivors from going crazy during the boring interstellar voyage after resurrection, they did not prepare a lot of nutrients for their brains.I thought it would be possible to keep the frozen state throughout the whole process, but I didn't expect that the freezing time would last for hundreds of thousands of years. After all, the ship was built in a hurry, so I couldn't think about it in detail.

The long-term low temperature has caused the brains of the gold family to accumulate chemical damage. There are many reasons for chemical damage, but the most basic one comes from the powerful destructive ability of oxygen and its derivatives.Most of the substances that build life will lose their function due to oxidation, and the golden family is also an organism that needs oxygen.

Although the temperature of the frozen environment for preserving the brains of the golden race is very low, this oxidative damage reaction still proceeds slowly, and it develops to a life-threatening level after several 10 years.

(End of this chapter)