Wandering planet that will travel

Seen from the fleet base, the little sun gradually shrunk into a bright star, but for a week later, the star was still faintly visible, looming among the stars the endless pain of the fleet.

The communication channel finally heard an echo from the Natural Selection: "I am the executive captain Zhang Beihai, and I want to talk directly to the fleet commander!"

Fleet Admiral: "I'm listening."

Zhang Beihai: "I am fully responsible for the departure of the Natural Selection."

Fleet Admiral: "Is there anyone else responsible?"

Zhang Beihai: "No, it's just me. This incident has nothing to do with the other members of the Natural Selection."

Fleet Commander: "Why did you defect?"

Zhang Beihai: "Separation is a fact, but I never defected!"

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The communication was suddenly interrupted here. After all, it was an eavesdropped message, and there was no way to maintain a good signal.

"I really don't know what Liu Peiqiang will think when he hears it." Qiao Lu muttered to himself.

Zhang Beihai and the Moss in the Wandering Earth project are simply printed out of the same mold, and their purpose is surprisingly similar, to preserve the fire for human civilization.

That's why he hijacked Natural Selection and escaped, just as Moss did when he piloted the Navigator space station off the wandering Earth.

"Anyway, since these warships are not directed at the wandering earth, let's not mind our own business." British representative George said.

In a sense, this is the business of the human civilization in Trisolaris, and how to deal with it is their business, and the Wandering Earth should not interfere.

Moreover, even with the addition of the four warships that were chasing, the total of five warships was still nothing compared to the combined fleet of more than 2000 ships, and it was not worth paying too much attention to.

Qiao Lv had a different opinion, he suggested to Luo Feng:

"Things may not be that simple. I suggest sending the Wannian Fengxue to follow them, maybe there will be some unexpected gains."

In fact, Qiao Li is very sure that the matter will not end like this. Natural Selection and the four warships chasing it will raise the curtain of a dark battle on the other side of the universe. It is best for the Wandering Earth to intervene now. .

Even if space travel is not possible, the antimatter engine of Wannian Fengxue can travel at 90% of the speed of light, and can easily catch up with Natural Selection, which can only reach 15.00% of the speed of light at most, and it is not a problem to follow from a distance.

So far, the human fleet in Trisolaris is still using nuclear fusion technology, not even heavy nuclear fusion technology, and can only use hydrogen and helium on Jupiter as fusion fuel, which is not a little bit less efficient.

It's not even enough to be used as fuel, let alone energy-intensive components such as shield barriers.

This made their battleships far inferior to the Wandering Earth fleet in quality. It wasn't that Qiao Lv looked down on them, but the Wannian Fengxue alone was enough to deal with the Natural Selection and the four battleships chasing it.

Luo Feng hesitated for a while, but finally accepted Qiao Lv's suggestion, and ordered:

"The Wannian Fengxue is preparing to set sail and is responsible for monitoring the fleeing fleet. The investigation team is also preparing to set off. We need more information to make a correct judgment!"

The goal of the Wandering Earth Investigation Team is of course the human civilization on this plane.What kind of situation the Wandering Earth is facing can only be known after careful investigation.

Chapter 6 and Eight of Human Civilization

After the eavesdropping of the wandering earth was interrupted, the communication between the natural selection and the Jupiter base was actually still going on.

The fleet commander was still persuading: "Zhang Beihai, I know the reason for your escape, but it is useless. Judging from your headings, the closest star is NH558J2 in the constellation Cygnus eighteen light-years away. Judging by the fuel situation, it will take 6 years to arrive."

"Even if the spaceship can be reached, the life on board cannot be reached, and the spaceship-scale ecosystem can't even last a tenth of this time! Civilization without human beings is meaningless!"

"Besides, NH558J2 has no planets suitable for life. The nearest star that may have habitable planets is 850 light-years away. Even if the fuel problem is not considered, it will take at least 6000 years to arrive! What awaits you is a long and endless voyage. Do you think Have we really not thought about it?"

This is the cruelest reality. It's not that human beings haven't considered fleeing, trying to spread the fire of civilization to other corners of the universe.

However, the fact is that it cannot be done. Unless human civilization can survive the doomsday battle with the Trisolaran civilization, any spaceship that tries to escape will end up dead if it cannot get supplies.

Zhang Beihai thought he could see farther places that others couldn't see, but in fact, it had already been discussed countless times.

Only when the technology of human civilization continues to develop can it be possible to manufacture spaceships capable of colonizing distant space.

However, in the current situation where human technology is locked by sophons, the premise of technological development is to defeat the Trisolaran civilization and force them to withdraw the sophons that blocked the earth.

This is a paradox. If you choose to fail and escape, how can you get more advanced technology?

Zhang Beihai fell into a long silence. The rock-solid things in his eyes before disappeared, revealing only a tired blankness and deep sorrow.

The commander of the fleet said: "Turn back, Zhang Beihai. If you continue to flee, the only way out in the future is to wait for the rescue we send. But if human civilization is destroyed in the battle of doomsday as you think, who would Will a more advanced spaceship be sent to rescue you?"

After a long time, Zhang Beihai replied, "Sorry, Commander."

After finishing speaking, he unilaterally cut off the communication, and decided to go all the way to the dark.

Even if the course of the natural selection is only a vast tomb.

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On the wandering earth, the Wannian Fengxue is preparing to set sail under the command of Captain Levsenko.

At this time, Natural Selection was already 500 million kilometers away, and only a few faint stars could be seen in space.

It's just that with the performance of the Wannian Fengxue, it is still effortless to catch up with the Natural Selection whose speed is only [-]% of the speed of light due to insufficient fuel.

On the other hand, the Wandering Earth Investigation Team plans to take the Ark to go to this plane of Earth. First, the Ark is powerful enough to protect itself as a battleship. was detected.

Of course, Qiao Lv is also in the line of preparations for departure. Currently, he is the only one who knows the truth about this dark forest and the terrifying enemies he will face.

In fact, on the wandering earth at this time, some astronomers have already discovered that on the background of the still starry sky, there is a bright spot moving, and that is the detector launched by the Trisolaran civilization—the water droplet.

Due to keeping concealment as much as possible and not being able to use space travel, it took the Ark two days to slowly reach above the earth's orbit on this plane.

The human civilization in the Trisolaran world has indeed developed to a certain extent. Magnificent space cities can be seen everywhere in the orbit of the earth. They are connected to the ground through a space elevator like a tower, and maintain a synchronous orbital movement with the earth.

But unlike the heavily armed Jupiter base with more than 2000 warships docked, although there are many space cities in Earth orbit, none of them are protected by warships. Only civilian spaceships shuttle between these space cities, which is completely an orbital habitat. , no military use.

It seems that the entire earth has been demilitarized, and all military bases, space fleets and other armed forces have been moved to Jupiter, making it the most important line of defense against the invasion of the Trisolaran civilization.

Earth is in a defenseless state, like Paris during World War II.

"Others have gone to Jupiter, are the French in charge of managing the Earth?" Liu Peiqiang said half-jokingly while looking at the picture.

Qiao Lu shook his head and said, "Maybe they are still working on the separation of powers and checks and balances, but they just played too big and separated the military power."

The space fleet of human civilization in the Trisolarans does not belong to any country, and has become an independent political and economic entity. It has also been divided into three fleets, the Asian Fleet, the European Fleet and the North American Fleet. They have also become members of the United Nations like countries.

This has led to the division of the human world into two internationals: the traditional Earth International and the newly emerging Fleet International.

The three major fleets form the Solar System Fleet, and the original Planetary Defense Council evolved into the Solar System Fleet Joint Conference, which is the nominal supreme command body of the Solar System Fleet, but just like the United Nations, it only has a coordination function and has no actual power.

The result is that no country on the earth has, and is not allowed to own interstellar warships, so the earth can only rely on the protection of the three major fleets on the Jupiter base, which is completely undefended.