Three days have passed, and Zhou Yun is still drifting alone in the deep starry sky. The difference from before is that this time she is in a shuttle. Another difference is that the water and food she carries are sufficient to support her. It took about seven days, which was due to her foresight and preparation for this rescue journey.
Despite this, her obsession with rescuing Liu Hanyang still made her extremely anxious. She wanted to go to the City of Ten Thousand Realms immediately. She seemed to have forgotten that she was trapped in deep space and she was the one who urgently needed to be rescued.
During the few days that Zhou Yun was trapped, Xiao Hang never gave up searching, but with the communication interrupted, there was no way to accurately locate her location.
In fact, Xiao Hang's transport aircraft is directly above Zhou Yun, but the distance between the two is nearly 13,000 kilometers. For a transport aircraft with an infrared detection range of only 2,000 kilometers, it has far exceeded its maximum detection range. .
It seems that the detection distance of 2,000 kilometers is not much different from the distance of 13,000 kilometers, but what Xiao Hang is facing is not a straight line distance, but the entire star field with the transport aircraft as the center, and its detection area is surprisingly large.
This invisibly increases the difficulty of rescue.
To make matters worse, on the fourth day of Xiao Hang's rescue operation, two Boltzmann spacecraft suddenly appeared on the left and right sides of the transport aircraft and used force to drive it away, forcing Xiao Hang to leave the location. star field.
Forced by armed deterrence, Xiao Hang had to fly the transport aircraft along the predetermined channel to the asteroid belt. When he arrived at the outer edge of the asteroid belt, all channels leading to the City of Ten Thousand Realms were closed, and Xiao Hang was Told not to return without permission, otherwise they will be shot down.
Xiao Hang is caught in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat. Advance means abandoning Zhou Yun and sailing into the vast space. He alone drives a single transport aircraft, and the future is unpredictable and full of unknowns.
If it retreats, once it enters the star field without permission, the transport aircraft will be shot down mercilessly.
The transport aircraft hovered about 30 kilometers away from the asteroid belt. It stayed there for three days, and Xiao Hang was helpless and helpless.
At this moment, Liu Hanyang and Wei'er were having a great time. They were driving their private spacecraft happily through the streets and alleys of the City of Ten Thousand Realms. Sometimes they merged into the busy and dazzling main road, and sometimes they were galloping through the streets. In a crowded and narrow alley.
This was not enough. They flew out of the City of Ten Thousand Realms and entered almost all the surrounding cities. Like cities on Earth, cities in Boltzmann's consciousness are connected by several transportation lines, but they are different from cities on Earth. Among the land transportation facilities, the latter is connected through a gaseous high-speed pipeline transportation network. In addition, there are busy and dense three-dimensional air channels.
They are like strips of light connecting tens of thousands of cities in Boltzmann's consciousness. Looking from a distance, the cities and transportation network reflect each other and are spectacular, like a brilliant nebula spanning the universe. among.
In addition, every city has its own distinctive characteristics, whether it is architectural style or responsibilities, each city is different and seems to play different roles.
In short, they are a very large cosmic city group, a super civilization that is far higher than the earth's civilization, but they are also an alternative existence, a third type of civilization that is different from living and non-living entities.
They also have many mysteries.
It is these incomprehensible but real mysteries that fascinate Liu Hanyang. Traveling with Weier, the journey was smooth and allowed him to truly appreciate the more mysterious and unknown side of Boltzmann's consciousness.
It turns out that, like all carbon-based life in the universe, even life forms similar to humans, Boltzmann consciousness also has civilization differences and armed conquests, and backward civilizations will also be eliminated or assimilated, even if they are They are several light years apart and belong to different galaxies.
It is worth mentioning that all the territories where Boltzmann consciousness bodies gather are not within stable star systems. They are often distributed within primitive nebulae. When the nebula produces the primitive star disk, collapses and gives birth to young stars, Sidereal time is the day of their destruction.
Therefore, they and humans must rely on stable star systems and rings
In comparison, creatures that live on planets with suitable environments, no matter how highly developed their civilizations are and how advanced their weapons are, they are never interested in humans.
This is also the reason why the Tiber Stars chose to give up after a brief armed conflict with them. Obtaining a primitive nebula with no place to stand meant nothing to the Tiber Stars.
There are a large number of unborn star systems or primitive nebulae that are forming stars in the universe. As long as the Tiberians are willing to get it, a single Pillar of Creation, known as the star factory, is enough for them to grab inexhaustible energy. , star factories like this are everywhere in the universe.
Since both parties are not interested in each other, let's be content with each other.
Liu Hanyang and Weier traveled for nearly three days, covering trillions of kilometers and almost flying over all the Boltzmann-type cities with the City of Ten Thousand Realms as its core. Finally, the two parked their spaceship in a small city. The outermost part is located at the boundary of this vast primitive nebula. This boundary echoes the asteroid belt on the other side of the city cluster and is separated on both sides.
The spaceship the two of them were riding was backed by a bright and stretching huge city group. Directly opposite it was a bright ribbon nebula. Weier learned from Wei Er that there were dozens of other Boltzmann-type nebulae distributed in this nebula. Civilizations have been fighting and conquering each other for thousands of years, and there is still no sign of stopping.
Even the City of Ten Thousand Realms, which is tens of billions of kilometers away, is not immune and is often involved in ongoing military conflicts. This stems from the intricate multilateral relationships between Boltzmann civilizations.
From Liu Hanyang's perspective, it's hard to say who is right and who is wrong.
Weier also informed him that Mr. Tooze's son was killed in a war with one of the Boltzmann civilizations.
The private spaceship Liu Hanyang and Wei'er were traveling on was one of the few multi-functional luxury spaceships in the City of Ten Thousand Realms. There were only a few of this type of spaceship. It was a symbol of identity and status. As the daughter of the top administrator, she naturally had the right to use it. .
The spacecraft slid slowly and finally came to a complete stop. It hovered in the empty and silent starry sky. From the beginning, with its back to the City of Ten Thousand Realms and facing different Boltzmann-type civilizations, to the bow of the ship pointed at the solar system. direction.
This was something Weier did deliberately. She quietly ordered the navigation team to perform this operation. The purpose was to cater to and please Liu Hanyang. For a voyager who is light-years away from his hometown, his hometown is always a road that cannot be bypassed. The hurdle.
Although Weier has no experience of being far away from her hometown, she has been reading poetry and books since she was a child. The poets and authors' descriptions of their emotions and attachment to her hometown made her feel immersed in it, as if she were one of the strangers who were alone in a foreign land in their writings.
At this moment, there was a real existence beside her. She and he walked to the gaseous porthole with dark light, and cast their eyes into the deep and empty starry sky.
The front is empty and dark, and the looming galaxies seem to be hidden in the mist. Perhaps only the wind blowing the mist can reveal some clues. Of course, there is no wind in the general sense in the universe, only electromagnetic storms and high-speed particle flows.
But no matter what it is, it doesn't seem to affect the two of them from enjoying this wonderful and beautiful cosmic landscape. Only in the empty interstellar space can they truly experience the wonder and vastness of the universe. .
"If your eyes were an ultra-high-precision astronomical telescope, ignoring all impossibilities, when your eyes penetrated the haze and stars, what would you hope to see in front of you?" Weier asked, looking ahead.
"What happened?" Liu Hanyang murmured. After pondering for a moment, he said thoughtfully, "Maybe the end of the universe is still the universe, maybe it is the back of us, maybe..."
"Have you never thought it would be Earth?"
"Earth?"
"Well!" Weier smiled and stretched out her hand and pointed forward, "The captain told me that the position the spacecraft is facing is your solar system, and the position corresponding to the tip of your nose is your hometown - the Earth."
"My hometown --- Earth, my hometown..." Liu Hanyang kept repeating, as if his eyes were an ultra-high-precision astronomical telescope at this moment, penetrating through layers of nebulae and galaxies until reaching the earth. Even his
The place where I lived.
He stared for a long time...
For a long time, he had not faced the direction of the earth directly. He remembered that the last time he looked at the earth from a distance was when he looked back when the expedition fleet set sail. From then on, he buried this thought deeply in his heart.
It turns out that as long as he thinks in his heart and is willing, he can look at the earth from anywhere in the universe, even if it is several light years away, even if it is far away in the depths of the universe.
Hometown is like a link, conveying homesickness and homesickness. At the same time, it drives them to move forward bravely and look at their hometown from afar. It can calm down the wanderers who are sailing into the universe, and can make the warriors who fight bravely dream of returning to their hometown.
Liu Hanyang turned his head and stared at Wei'er quietly. He knew that she was kind and innocent, but he didn't expect that she was also considerate and could understand what others were thinking.
"Thank you," he said sincerely.
She raised her eyebrows and raised her lips slightly: "Thank you ***, you can convince your colleagues to leave the City of Ten Thousand Realms, but you stay alone with me. I should thank you."
Her words were like a steel knife piercing his already sad heart, but he didn't show it. He smiled awkwardly and perfunctorily. The unnatural smile concealed the pain in his heart, and she didn't notice it.
"Oh, by the way, your colleagues should have flown out of the asteroid belt and entered interstellar space by now, right?"
"Maybe."
After he finished speaking, he turned his attention to the star field on the left, which was the direction of the asteroid belt.
What Wei'er didn't know was that Liu Hanyang sacrificed "freedom" in exchange for the safety of Zhou Yun and Xiao Hang.
Since the second attempt to escape from the City of Ten Thousand Realms failed, he and Xiao Hang were imprisoned in Boltzmann Prison, while Zhou Yun fell into the starry sky, her life and death unknown.
In order to save Zhou Yun's life, and for her and Xiao Hang to leave the City of Ten Thousand Realms smoothly, Liu Hanyang made an astonishing move. When meeting with the top administrator in prison, he promised him that as long as they were willing to save Zhou Yun , as long as he ensured that she and Xiao Hang left the City of Ten Thousand Realms safely in the transport aircraft after being rescued, he volunteered to stay here forever and accompany Wei'er to experience human life.
In a sense, this is an agreement between the parties.
For the top administrator, Liu Hanyang's conditions are not harsh. It can be said that he has not lost anything. He not only successfully prevented his precious daughter from leaving the City of Ten Thousand Realms and himself without hesitation, but also allowed him to do what he wanted and continue to be parasitic. Experience human life inside a human brain.
Keeping Liu Hanyang is equivalent to keeping Weier's heart, preserving his dignity as a father, his majesty as the highest administrator, and at the same time preserving his father's love.
From now on, he will have ten thousand ways to return his daughter's love to normal, that is, to return to Boltzmann's consciousness.
