In the process of using the gravitational slingshot effect to accelerate, the spacecraft was accelerated more than 300 times in total. Although its path did not follow the straight line of Proxima Centauri b, the meandering acceleration still pushed it 1.4 light-years toward its destination. .
The longest acceleration time and farthest distance was when it encountered a wandering brown dwarf with a mass of 68 times that of Jupiter. The spacecraft was accelerated by a full 0.45 light-years.
Now, the space vehicle driven by Li Sujia and Mecha-9 is only 1.2 light-years away from its destination Proxima b. Adding the range of the space vehicle itself, that is, the maximum driving distance of 0.8 light-years, it only takes After being accelerated by another 0.4 light-years by the rogue planet, you can successfully reach your destination.
It's night, the stars are bright, the sky is boundless, beauty and emptiness are intertwined, colors and boundlessness are blended, and scenes of cosmic scenery are staged in this deep and intoxicating deep sky.
The spacecraft is still under the influence of the last gravitational slingshot effect, and it flies lonely into deep space...
Mecha No. 9 is constantly using interstellar navigation equipment to search the gorgeous and boundless star field. It is looking forward to encountering a massive rogue planet unexpectedly.
Li Sujia was temporarily replaced. She took a break from her busy schedule and made herself a cup of hot synthetic drink using the unique drinks on board the aircraft.
The drink is specially prepared according to her own body functions, with some milk, sugar, etc. added to it, which is more suitable for her taste.
Holding her drink, she came to the porthole and stood in front of the porthole, staring at the endless starry sky and falling into deep thought...
Living in interstellar space about 3.1 light-years away from the earth, the beautiful scenery of the universe is stunning and addictive, but it also makes people feel a deep loneliness and helplessness.
She couldn't help but ask herself, does everything in front of her really exist?
She hoped that all this was an illusion, just as Plato said: the world consists of the "ideal world" and the "phenomenal world".
The ideal world is a real existence, eternal and unchanging, and the real world that human senses come into contact with is just a weak shadow of the ideal world. It is composed of phenomena, and each phenomenon is temporary due to factors such as time and space. changes and other characteristics.
At this moment, she felt that Plato was very right. Isn't what she was perceiving in front of her just a faint shadow in her own ideal world?
The galaxies in front of her had various shapes. She worked hard to piece together the corresponding objects in her subconscious, hoping to connect the two. Isn't this a weak mapping stuck in her subconscious?
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Plato might be right. Wasn't everything she was seeing made up of phenomena? Isn’t it the case that factors such as time and space show temporary changes and other characteristics?
She closed her eyes, feeling the silence and nothingness brought about by it all...
After meditating for a long time, she finally got out of the confinement of her thoughts. After taking a sip of the drink, she turned her gaze back to the star field...
The brilliance remains the same, the emptiness remains the same, but the only difference is that the state of mind has changed.
Staring at the stars again, everything in front of her became so real. She couldn't help but feel guilty for her thoughts just now. Indeed, in this empty and helpless deep space of the universe, difficulties and resistance will cause people to have a problem. A fear.
This kind of fear often makes people temporarily forget everything and forget about it with the help of some kind of theory or reverie.
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page)
Difficult things are placed in a spiritual world and gain temporary fame.
This is an instinctive reaction and a normal change of mentality.
"Go and get some sleep. I will monitor the flight control of the aircraft." The voice of Mecha No. 9 came over.
"I'm not tired. Have you searched for the stray planets passing by on the route?" she asked without looking back.
"It has not been found yet. However, I have activated the automatic search function. Once a stray planet passes by, the search device will alarm and I will park the aircraft into the predetermined orbit as soon as possible."
She nodded and looked away from the porthole. Suddenly, her face became horrified, and she saw a human arm.
"How is this going?"
It smiled lightly, and then raised its arm. Its entire arm was wrapped in a kind of artificial muscle and skin, and it looked no different from a human arm in appearance.
"I...I used the skinning technology of the home robot to improve the artificial muscles and skin tissue. How good is it? It matches the shape of my hand and arm." It smiled, its brows filled with the joy and satisfaction of success. .
"What do you want to do? Do you want to become a human?" she roared, her eyes filled with jealousy and resentment. "No matter how realistic your skin and muscle tissue are, you will always be a machine and you will never become a human!"
Her words were like a sap that made it speechless for a moment. It didn't expect that she would be so angry and resistant. The reason why it did this was just to let her accept herself and stop treating it as a cold person who only knew how to execute. command machine.
It is a humanoid mecha that is different from other mechas and has independent self-awareness. Since its consciousness awakened, it has always regarded itself as an alternative, a mecha whose thinking and consciousness are infinitely close to humans.
It wants to become human.
Metal shells and artificial neural networks cannot stop it from changing step by step toward humans.
It loves Li Sujia deeply, and for her, it is willing to become a real human. To this end, during the period of more than 2 years when it used rogue planets to implement the gravitational slingshot effect, it repeatedly studied and experimented day and night, and finally made Artificial muscles and skin tissue that can look just like real ones have been developed.
But the joy turned into rebuke and ridicule, but it didn't blame her.
It understands her, the pain and loneliness in her heart. As a once normal and complete human being, she lost almost all physical and external characteristics of a human being overnight. This kind of pain and tears can only be felt by it. arrive.
Because it loves her.
"If you don't like it, I'll cut it off now." It said, and with a sound of "Bang!" a long knife spun out from the front end of the other arm, its face was horizontal, one hand was raised, and a cold light flashed across the shadow. The knife rises and falls...
"Dang!" As sparks burst out, a plum-blossom gun blocked the long knife.
It was Li Sujia who used the plum blossom spear.
"No matter what you change into, that's your own business." After she finished speaking, she raised her hand and picked the long knife to one side. After staring at it for a moment, she turned around and walked towards the cockpit...
"Just don't let me see you again." She said without looking back.
At this moment, Plato's doctrine of "ideal world" and "phenomenal world" occupied her heart, and the changes in it that her senses came into contact with were just a faint shadow of her own ideal world.
"That's all you are
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page)
Don't like me? Every time he talks to me, he has a cold face! But to you humans, it has a different face. Are we mechas so disliked by you? "It roared loudly behind her.
Her steps stopped, but she didn't turn around.
"I treat all mechas like this. If you're not used to it, you can stay away from me."
"But I am not an ordinary mecha. I have feelings, and I have all the joys, sorrows, joys and emotional worlds of you humans!"
She turned around and looked at it in astonishment...
It felt that it was time to confess its love to her. A mecha with a metal body was so timid in front of a soft woman, it was almost like a mecha.
"I love..."
Before the word "you" was spoken, the spacecraft's search device detected a massive star that was passing on the route ahead. At this moment, it was about 17 million kilometers away from the spacecraft.
She and it immediately jumped into the cockpit and began to manually search for the target... Gradually, the outline of the wandering star appeared before their eyes.
This is a star with a mass of 1,000 times that of the sun. It is difficult to imagine that there is such a huge wandering star in the universe.
"Is it a planet?" she asked.
It shook its head, a hint of worry flashing across its face.
"Is it a wandering star?"
It shook its head again, carefully looked at the parameters sent back by the search device, and said: "The search device can't detect its detailed parameters yet. It only sent back its mass and relative speed. With such a large mass, , either a pulsar or a black hole."
"Pulsar, black hole!?"
"Pulsars are a terrifying celestial body, considered the 'death star'. They are the product of stars exploding in the supernova stage, but black holes are even more terrifying than that!"
Li Sujia's face immediately became serious. She knew very well what it would mean for their weak space vehicle to encounter either of the two.
"Judging from the data obtained so far, the probability of it being a pulsar is very low. If it were, our aircraft would be destroyed by its super strong radio pulse. Now we are safe and sound, proving that it is not a pulsar."
Its words made her let out a long sigh of relief, but in an instant her face became more serious than before.
At this moment, she and its eyes met, with a hint of uneasiness in their eyes.
For stars with a mass of 1,000 times that of the sun, after excluding pulsars, only black holes remain.
This is the most terrifying celestial body in the universe. Its gravity is extremely strong, and its space-time curvature is so great that even light cannot escape. Once it is locked by its super strong gravitational field, escaping it is basically just an illusion.
"Can we use its powerful gravitational field and the gravitational slingshot effect to accelerate the aircraft?" Li Sujia asked.
Mecha No. 9 suddenly looked at her. From her eyes, it read an extraordinary calmness and a sense of humiliation. Facing the most terrifying celestial body in the universe, what she thought of was not escape, but Move forward resolutely.
It expresses sincere admiration.
"I am willing to be with you even if I die." It said, with determination and deep love in its eyes.
"Beep, beep, beep..." The spacecraft made a shrill alarm sound. It was bound by the black hole's gravitational field and fell towards it at high speed...
(End of chapter)
7017k
