wandering planet

The decision to respond to the Phoenix was made after the Earth Defense Fleet headquarters saw the images sent back from the Australian station.

Before deciding on the content of the response, the decision-makers at the headquarters reported the situation to the United Nations.In the next ten hours, various representative countries launched a long dispute.

Is that really the Phoenix?

Are those on the Phoenix really human?

Even humans, are they really from Maasai?

Even from Marseilles, do they have good intentions?

Numerous uncertainties have led to very strong opposition from conservatives about the actions of the response and the content of the response.

As a result of the first ballot, only two permanent members voted in favour.

The meeting, which should have been suspended at this point, continued when the participants got up one after another.Representatives of the two countries that voted in favor insisted on another vote, once again to hear the views of the Australian station and the Earth Defense Fleet.

"There is no need for discussion!" Someone slapped the conference table fiercely and reprimanded loudly, "Why was the solar system crisis defense system established? It is to avoid crises and disasters! It is a ship from outer space, and it has weapons! This is threaten!"

"I firmly oppose this habit of making decisions based on past experience without evidence and factual argumentation. We should respond, no—please listen to me—no! We are not here to welcome disaster!" Excited, "It's to welcome the humans from afar back home!"

"I know why you agree!" Another person also stood up, "That is your ship, it is your thing, so you two countries voted for it! Even if the ship really returned to the earth, the information on it would not It should be shared by the whole world, and it is absolutely impossible for two countries to take it for themselves!"

The brown-haired middle-aged man who had been wearing military uniform touched his chin.

"Then respond first without unlocking the lock." He made a suggestion, "Yes, that's right, the Homer is indeed our country's ship. But whether Homer or Phoenix, in 500 When they set out before, they represented the hope of all mankind. They are the ships of all mankind, not but belong to a certain country."

"...What if an accident occurs and the ship breaks through the Kuiper Shield?"

"Then use it as a surprise exercise for the solar system's crisis defense system."

The content of the dispute at the meeting is top secret, so no one knows what happened.

But when Xue Ming received the order from the headquarters, he had already vaguely guessed it.

Kuiper Shield and Spear of Eris cannot be unlocked, and the two distant ships are always designated as enemy ships, and the level cannot be lowered.

On this basis, he issued a "welcome home" message.

"...strange." Pierre suddenly raised his hand, "Linney, Fei Lian, the solar system's lock on us has not been released. Their offensive weapons are still pointing at the location of the Phoenix."

Linney's heart sank: The other party is still suspicious.

Fei Lian touched his nose: "Let me communicate with the other party. Use communication to dispel their suspicion. I understand Earth language... the Earth language of 500 years ago. I hope I can still communicate with them normally."

"You can't." Linney shook his head. "You are an artificial intelligence. They are already suspicious. Your appearance may backfire."

Make sure they unlock the defenses and fully accommodate the Phoenix before reaching the solar system.

Lin Ni turned to look at Jiang Che.

"Jiang, can you?"

"I can." Jiang Che replied immediately, "I understand Chinese and English. If the current official language of the earth remains unchanged, there will be absolutely no problem in communication."

"No matter what the other party asks, just answer according to the actual situation."

The aftertaste of excitement and ecstasy still lingered, Jiang Che sat on the position of the deputy captain, staring at the large screen.

The starry sky pressed down on him like a dark mirror.

The message "Welcome Home" is also signed in Chinese characters, "Australia Station, Xue Ming".

They use Chinese.Jiang Che thought, because of the Phoenix, they used Chinese.The people on Earth seem to be convinced that the Phoenix, an ancient pioneer ship, can read Chinese characters, which is system data that it can never erase.

Looking at the signature, Jiang Che thought to himself that the station master seemed to be Chinese as well.

And this station name, is this to commemorate Australia that should have disappeared?

There are too many thoughts in his head, too complicated, and they are crowded together, which makes him feel like crying again.

"Australia", Chinese, Chinese names, all these seem to be things of a distant past life.During the 500 years of sleeping in the freezer, all Jiang Che's memories were black and cold.After really waking up, he couldn't even sleep normally.The rehabilitation instructor suggested that he recall the happy things before, and he lay on the bed with his eyes open, recalling his childhood and adolescence over and over again.

He would hum the songs he had heard, sing masterpieces of Jiang Mu's favorite singers, recall movie lines, and recall every road he had traveled.

Jiang Che didn't know whether his memory was too good, or his brain subconsciously filled in all the unclear parts.In his memory, the rabbit hole at the end of the mountain road is clear, and the fishing boat that is about to sail is floating on the river. He and Jiang Mu are running barefoot on the river embankment, and the boat whistle is sounding far away, as if saying goodbye loudly.

A patch of water, a patch of fog, a faucet that keeps leaking and can never be screwed properly are all clear.

These memories gave him great satisfaction.

Now he is going back.All memories are accessible.He could also take Ovid to the river and tell him how the mist flowed down the hills and rolled into the river like milk.He wants to take Tang Mo and Pierre to catch fish, those small shrimps and small snails, as well as the small crabs hiding under the rocks and spitting bubbles, and the aquatic plants swaying in the water.What can't be eaten in mountains and rivers? He is willing to entertain his friends with all edible things. To know a mountain or a river, one must first taste the taste of mountains and rivers.When they use all kinds of stories as condiments and eat all these flavors in their stomachs, they can really get acquainted with his hometown.

But he still had great fear in his heart.

So the first message Jiang Che sent was an inquiry.

"What is the earth like now?"

While waiting for the reply from the Australian station, Linney was still writing his voyage notes.

Song Junxing found that he stopped after writing for a while, staring at the book in a daze.

He leaned over and peeked at Linney's notebook over his shoulder, only to find that there was only one line written on it: "Solar System Crisis Defense System".

"...What's wrong with this system?" Song Junxing asked, "It suspects us, don't you like it? I'll help you fight it."

Lin Ni ignored his nonsense at all, just frowned and kept drawing circles on the notebook.

Song Junxing knew that he was thinking about something and couldn't be interrupted, so he closed his mouth and watched quietly.

After watching for a while, he figured out some clues: "This is the Alpha galaxy you drew?"

Linney nodded.

The Alpha galaxy is the galaxy where Marseille is located.

Song Junxing vaguely guessed what Lin Ni was thinking.He turned around and sat on the table, knocking on Linney's notebook: "It's not appropriate, there is no star belt similar to the Kuiper belt in the outer layer of the Alpha galaxy."

Linney looked up at him in surprise, a little surprised that he guessed what was in his mind.

In Song Junxing's eyes, Lin Ni, who opened his eyes, was very interesting and cute.He reached out and brushed the messy long hair on Lin Ni's forehead, thinking that it should be cut again, why did his hair grow so fast.

"Going back to Earth is Jiang Che's goal, and finding a way to save Marseille is your goal." He said to Lin Ni.

Song Junxing's guess is correct: Linney has become very interested in the solar system crisis defense system, and is thinking about the possibility of transplanting it to the Alpha galaxy.

Linney never forgot the task his father and Cicero gave him.

After hearing from Fei Lian and Tolstoy the defense system composed of Kuiper Shield and Erised Spear, he immediately realized that this might be what he was looking for.

During this voyage, he saw predators of different civilization levels.In the records left by Cicero at that time, it was not written at all which level of looters were invading Marseille.

Therefore, it is obviously unrealistic for them to take the initiative to attack and annihilate the predators.

At this stage, what is more important is to allow Marseille and even Alpha Galaxy to establish a sufficiently effective defense system.

If there were predators with higher-level civilizations, they would not be interested in Marseilles, just like the advanced civilizations in the Arlans star field were even willing to show off their starships in front of the humans at the Egret space station.

Therefore, what Marseille needs to defend is predators who are about the same level as itself.

The first step is to find out the communication path with the earth, and this step has been basically completed.In the future, humans in Marseille and the earth can communicate with each other. In another sense, the earth is the ally and backing of Marseille.

Then, refer to the experience of building the solar system crisis defense system on the earth, and transplant this system that can defend against all external invaders in an all-round way to the Alpha galaxy.

"Marseille actually already has an overall defense system, thesea." Linney said, "If a defense system that can protect the entire Alpha galaxy is built outside of thesea, I think this is almost the same."

Song Junxing nodded, and repeated what he said just now: "But the Alpha galaxy is different from the solar system. First of all, it doesn't have that many planets, and it doesn't have a star belt like the Kuiper belt that surrounds the entire galaxy."

"If there is no star belt, then create a star belt." Linney said slowly, "For example, create a star belt composed of a fleet, and transfer part of the Marseille fleet from the ground of Marseille to the outer space of the Alpha galaxy."

Fei Lian was not very interested in what Lin Ni and Song Junxing discussed.

It usually takes several hours to wait for the reply from the Australian station. He felt bored, turned and left the cockpit, walked through the long and winding corridor, intending to chat with Tolstoy.

Before he was halfway there, Tolstoy called him first.

"Fei Lian, where are you?"

"On the way to find you." Fei Lian replied cheerfully, "Did I tell you about those planets? Jiang Che and Lin Ni found a lot of food on them, do you want to hear?"

"Well, I want to hear it," said Tolstoy, "but before that, I have something important to tell you. I just want to tell you, please don't bring anyone else here."

His tone was serious, Fei Lian stopped moving step by step, and directly teleported himself to the port, and then entered the Homer from the port.

During the transmission, Fei Lian tried to read Tolstoy's current status, but was surprised to find that his access request was rejected by Tolstoy's system.

To be more precise, Tolstoy did not open up to Fei Lian about the interviewed part.

"Tolstoy, what happened?" Fei Lian was very nervous. This is like some kind of data corruption. For artificial intelligence, data corruption is meaningless and brain necrosis.Part of Tolstoy's system had been damaged in the previous fall, and Fei Lian couldn't help but think that the rest of it was now starting to fade away.

He ran all the way to the cockpit in the dark cabin.

The cockpit, which was originally lit, has now become pitch black, and there is no light source except for the light leaking in from the porthole.

Fei Lian's system suddenly started to heat up.

An emotional programming called "fear" kicked in, affecting his whole system.

"Tolstoy!" he yelled, "Homer's Biroger ring lost its kinetic energy?!"

After a moment of silence, Tolstoy answered his question: "Fei Lian, yes. The remaining energy of the Birog ring is less than 2%, and it is no longer enough for me to operate at full capacity."

Although Tolstoy does not have the human emotion processing program in the Feilian system, he is also an excellent AI.He can use logical operations to make reasonable judgments, such as whether a certain fact should be concealed.

When exploring around the stellar cemetery in the Ios star field, the Homer has actually been affected by the stellar cemetery.

In the past 500 years, the gravitational circle of the stellar cemetery has continued to expand, and the Homer was severely damaged. Even if Tolstoy realized that he had to leave, the ship could not carry out the order at all.When the Phoenix contacted him, the Homer had already begun to be captured by the gravity of the stellar graveyard.

Fortunately, he was still in the fringe area and could still escape.

But during the whole process of escaping, almost all the remaining Birog ring energy was consumed.

"I didn't want the situation on the Homer to worry you and the captain of the Phoenix, so I concealed it." Tolstoy confessed to Fei Lian, "But I didn't expect that the Biroger ring could no longer hold on. .”

Fei Lian is very clear that it is very, very difficult for the Biroger ring of the Homer to persist until now after 500 years of operation.

This shows that throughout the years of his disappearance, Tolstoy tried his best to preserve the energy of the Biroger ring, waiting for the day when he was found.

"...how far can you hold on?" Fei Lian asked, "Have you calculated it?"

"It is impossible to reach the solar system." Tolstoy confessed.

"You can reach the solar system." Fei Lian immediately answered, "The Phoenix will take you there."

Tolstoy thought for a moment, then rejected Fei Lian's proposal. "The homer without power is just a piece of useless hull. It will slow down the progress of Phoenix and increase the risk. Phoenix will have to pass through the Kuiper belt and another asteroid in the solar system to reach Earth. Take, it's very dangerous to carry the Homer..."

Fei Lian was in a hurry: "I refuse your request. Captain Linney will definitely refuse. We have arrived here, Tolstoy, and the homeland is ahead."

Tolstoy still insisted on finishing his words.

"...Homer asked the Phoenix to release the connection bay."

Fei Lian suddenly fell silent.

Only then did he understand why Tolstoy had to tell himself so much.

The existing energy of the Biroger ring cannot even allow Tolstoy to successfully release the connection state.If it happens to lose its kinetic energy when undocking, the Homer will collide violently with the Phoenix.

Tolstoy is begging Fei Lian to let the Homer sacrifice one more time for the Phoenix.

"We are going to bring Commander Volkonski and the entire crew back to Earth." Fei Lian said, "Tolstoy, although I am only a teenager in terms of personality setting, younger than you and Eve, but the Phoenix is The best vanguard. Please trust me."

After a moment of silence, Tolstoy heaved a long sigh.

At this time, he seems to be an AI with a human emotion processing program.

"Homer's vanguard artificial intelligence program, number 0618, codenamed 'Tolstoy', began to shut down." He whispered.

Fei Lian stood alone in the cockpit, next to the body of Commander Volkonski.

He had been listening to voices from the Homer.

Something is slowly extinguishing, this half-dead ship, and finally even its custodian is completely silent.

Only the engine was still vibrating slightly.

Tolstoy chose to close himself in order to provide the last 1% of the energy of the Birog ring to the Homer, so as to ensure that it would not drag the Phoenix back.

"I have a way, I will definitely let you restart." Fei Lian said softly.

He didn't linger any longer, turned and left the Homer, and quickly returned to the cockpit of the Phoenix.

At this moment, the message from the Australian station has just been transmitted.

This is a video chat.

A cheerful young man was sitting in a certain workshop, greeting Jiang Che with the staff behind him.

When he opened his mouth to speak, both Jiang Che and Fei Lian were slightly taken aback.

It is the same as the case of Marseilles: Human beings have produced a new Earth language through continuous integration and development.

Jiang Che and Fei Lian could understand part of the spoken language, so they could probably figure out what the other party was saying.

The young man called himself Xue Ming and was the stationmaster of the Australia station.

"...a third is missing, and the moon is gone," he said. "Beyond the earth, dust and debris have formed a new small star belt, and the earth is now a ringed planet."

The author has something to say: The Marseille defense system [thesea] mentioned by Linney has already appeared in Chapter 1, a big silver circle.

Then I was shocked to find that there was a big bug in Chapter 1, and I covered my face and cried.It was written that an asteroid crashed off the coast of Chile and smashed up half of South America.However, I completely forgot why I wrote it like this. Australia is written in the setting and outline... Quickly change it!

This chapter connects a lot of things before, why should we write about advanced civilization, why should we write about unbeatable predators, and so on.The purpose of Lin Ni and Song Junxing is fundamentally different from that of Jiang Che.

Then tomorrow I will enter the plot of the earth... I will describe the earth and the solar system after the disaster...

I hope everyone remembers "the author is a person who likes to talk nonsense" XDDD