In an antique courtyard house in Yanjing City, Lin Xu was sitting on a deck chair in the middle of the courtyard, watching the clouds in the sky and listening to the ancient records playing on the gramophone not far away.
The sun hangs in the center of the sky, and the sunlight shining down on us is warm, just like it did for millions of years when the earth was still orbiting the sun.
However, the reality is that the sun in the sky is only simulated by the nuclear fusion simulated sun of the Eco-Dome.
Cities around the world have basically been frozen in ice, and only a few cities have been preserved by Lin Xu as urban ecosystems.
Yanjing City is one of them.
Miss Qiu was dressed in a maid outfit, with black silk stockings and absolute domain under her short skirt. She came in style, holding a cup of pudding milk tea in her hand, and placed it on the small table next to Lin Xu.
You can also see fruits such as grapes and bananas on the table, as well as three perfect diamond-shaped objects the size of bottle caps. Lin Xu has been studying them, although there has been no progress.
But he always felt that this thing was not simple, so he didn't just leave it to Taiyin, Yinghuo, and Qiming to do any destructive experiments.
"Thank you." Lin Xu said casually, picked up the pudding milk tea with the straw inserted and prepared to drink it.
He still prefers pudding to bubble milk tea.
However, before he could put the straw into his mouth, he froze.
"Are you wearing a maid outfit?" Lin Xu asked in surprise.
"Master, don't you like it?"
"Quite like."
"As long as the master likes it," Miss Qiu said with a twitch in the corner of her mouth.
Lin Xu knew that she wanted to try to smile, but unfortunately she didn't do it well.
"Master, preparations for hibernation are complete." While Lin Xu was drinking milk tea, Miss Qiu got down to business.
"A thousand years, it will be a thousand years later when I wake up again." Lin Xu sighed with emotion.
Then he asked, "By the way, where are we flying to now?"
"Just past Neptune."
"We are about to leave the solar system!" Lin Xu sighed again.
Drink up the milk tea in your hand and stand up.
"Let's go, take one last look at the sun."
Outside Yanjing City, on the frozen land, a huge planetary engine sprays blue light pillars into the sky. Under the planetary engine is the winding Great Wall and mountains.
Lin Xu was wearing power armor and stood on one of the walls of the Great Wall, looking up at the sky. Only the sun, which had become smaller than a ping pong ball, remained.
Miss Qiu accompanied him behind him.
Until Lin Xu let out a sigh of relief.
"Go back. When you wake up, you will be in the Proxima Galaxy."
The distance from the solar system to the Proxima Centauri galaxy is 4.3 light years.
The voyage group that traveled thousands of years ago traveled this distance for five hundred years.
Today, the entire earth is heading towards the Proxima Galaxy, and the speed cannot be as fast as the voyage fleet.
It takes a full thousand years to walk.
But considering it's a planet, this speed is quite fast.
Anyway, for Lin Xu, it was just a matter of sleeping, so he didn't think that a thousand years was unacceptable.
Lin Xu still remembered that there was an old song called "A Thousand Years Later". Although he was already ten thousand years later, he still felt very touched about the idea of another thousand years later.
However, what Lin Xu didn't expect was that when he woke up from the dormant chamber again, it would not be a thousand years later, but nine hundred years later.
And it was awakened because of an emergency.
"Is this a thousand years from now?" Lin Xu felt as if he had just closed his eyes, and then was woken up. He looked at Miss Qiu outside the dormant chamber and sighed with emotion.
"I'm sorry, Master, only nine hundred years have passed. It is now 10,680 years in the sailing calendar. You have been awakened urgently."
"Emergency wake-up? What happened?" Lin Xu was startled and asked quickly.
"Master, let me explain it to you next." Ying Huo's voice sounded.
"We discovered an autonomous mechanical aggregate. It seemed that it was released for reconnaissance when humans were stationed in the Proxima Galaxy. Later, as humans left the Proxima Galaxy and resumed their voyage, this autonomous machine was permanently on standby. It should be on standby for tens of thousands of years now.”
"If this autonomous machine can be restarted, its internal database will be of great help to us in understanding what humans did in the Proxima Galaxy thousands of years ago."
"Then it's started. Is there anything wrong with calling me up?" Lin Xu asked confused.
"This requires your authorization."
After coming out of the dormant warehouse and returning to his small courtyard in Yanjing, Lin Xu finally understood what was going on under Ying Huo's explanation.
As advanced artificial intelligence quantum computers, they can naturally activate this kind of autonomous machine at any time.
But it requires Lin Xu's authorization to take over the control program of the autonomous machinery.
Only humans can decide on the disposition of human property.
After understanding all this, Lin Xu immediately authorized Yinghuo.
So not long after, Yinghuo completed the takeover of the single-order autonomous machine.
Lin Xu even sat on a lounge chair in the small courtyard and watched a live broadcast.
From the holographic image projected in the small courtyard, one could clearly see that in the pitch-black starry sky, a spherical entity the size of an aircraft carrier suddenly began to rhythmically vibrate on its surface.
The spherical entity disintegrated into countless large and small autonomous machines, and then these autonomous machines self-assembled into a huge cone.
It's just that there are no weapons on the surface of this cone, but the engine nozzle behind the cone is even larger.
With the unusually thick beam of light ejected, this autonomous mechanical aggregate chased the fast-moving earth.
At this time, the earth has entered a deceleration stage that also lasted for one hundred and fifty years after one hundred and fifty years of acceleration and seven hundred years of coasting.
But the speed is still very fast, and there is no way to stop immediately. Naturally, it is impossible to wait for it, and can only let it catch up on its own.
Lin Xu watched the entire live broadcast. In order to let him see clearly, the artificial sun in the sky was thoughtfully adjusted to a low light state and turned into an artificial moon.
It wasn't until Lin Xu finished reading that he returned to the sun's mode and illuminated the earth again.
Now that he has woken up, Lin Xu plans to continue sleeping in a few days.
So a few days later, he got the simple situation of the Proxima Centauri galaxy compiled by Yinghuo from the autonomous machine's database.
Although it was the situation ten thousand years ago.
Looking at one of the messages, Lin Xu looked strange.
"Before humans left ten thousand years ago, they left some androids at the curvature engine factory in the Proxima Galaxy to look after the factory?"
"Are these bionic people capable of fertility?" Lin Xu asked.
"It's not shown in the data." Yinghuo replied.
