Chapter 122 Reflection and New Journey

"Originally, we went to the nearest Barnard's Star, which was only 5.6 light years away from us. However, considering that Silver Mist might obtain interstellar navigation technology from our factory, we changed our target and went to the more distant Wolf 1061."

The scientific officer replied: "Wolf 1061 is about 8.1 light years away from us now, which is farther than Barnard's Star, but it is also relatively safer. There are about 24 stars within 15 light years of the Ross 154 star system. Even if Silver Mist really has the ability to navigate interstellar space, I don't think it can know us in the vast sea of ​​stars. But then again, I don't think Wolf 1061 is safe. "All, after all, Silver Mist"

"I know!"

Yue Yuan walked to the porthole, looked at the exterior of the three Starlight ships, and sighed: "If Silver Mist really gets the technology from our leftover factories, then I'm afraid this entire star field is not safe. If they master the controlled nuclear fusion technology, then the navigation speed must be much faster than ours. After a few hundred years, it may develop into a cosmic disaster. "

"Yes, so Wolf 1061 is only our temporary destination. We have to run further. Before reaching the third-level civilization, we will run as far as we can." The scientific officer spoke while fiddling with the equipment in front of him.

"It seems that we can't stay in one place for a long time in the short term." Yue Yuan still put his hands on the railing and looked out the porthole.

Humanity has gotten rid of Silver Mist, but it is unknown how long this escape can last. It may be a hundred years, or hundreds of years, but as long as Silver Mist has not been eliminated, this star field is still a dangerous star field for humans.

In other words, it will be difficult for humans to stay in one place for a long time in the future.

As the Hope slowly sailed into deep space and gradually disappeared into the bright starry sky, mankind embarked on a new journey.

However, the influence of the Silver Mist has not faded from human life.

In daily life, people still mention the Silver Mist, a creation of alien civilization, from time to time. As the new government leading mankind, a summary meeting was held for this.

It was mainly to summarize the gains and losses and lessons learned from this Silver Mist incident.

At the meeting, Yue Yuan first self-examined his judgment in the final stage. He should not have agreed to the final useless bombardment, which put mankind in danger.

Although it is said that no one is without fault, such a thing should not have happened.

However, in response to Yue Yuan's self-examination, the participants said that if there was no sufficient preparation in advance, mankind would not even have a chance to escape.

Having said that, it also shows that mankind lacks experience in facing alien civilizations. It can be said that at this time, the Silver Mist really gave mankind a lesson about the dangers of cosmic civilization.

This lesson is very heavy.

It also made humans clearly realize that advanced civilization is advanced civilization. Even if it is just a miner who can only mine, it cannot be defeated by low-level civilization.

At the same time, it also told humans that sometimes greed may cost lives.

If humans ignored the strange signal from the beginning, if humans did not intend to rescue the Mok people from the beginning, if humans only wanted to run away from the beginning.

There is no if in the world. Such lessons can only be written in people's hearts, so that people can always be vigilant in their future actions.

At the meeting, in addition to self-examination and reflection, tasks for the next journey of humans and the general strategy of human beings' possible encounter with alien civilizations were arranged.

It can be confirmed that in the process of going to Wolf 1061, most humans entered a long hibernation like the previous thousand-year voyage. A distance of 8.1 light years, sailing at 15% of the speed of light, considering a little time expansion, humans will need to sail for about 54 years.

It's just 54 years, and it will pass in a sleep.

After achieving controlled nuclear fusion, a mere 8.1 light years under human feet no longer requires more than 800 years of difficult sailing.

After this encounter, almost no one on the Hope has any illusions about aliens anymore.

Yue Yuan believes that if they really encounter other aliens one day, no one will believe any nonsense about friendliness.

Not only that, this incident is likely to change the attitude of human beings towards low-level civilizations.

Many people who have the idea of ​​peaceful communication have basically lost their original ideas after the Silver Mist incident. Yue Yuan even suspects that if humans grow up and encounter a low-level civilization, no one will object to launching a massacre without saying a word.

At the meeting, he has heard a lot of such extreme voices.

Yue Yuan said that such changes are good.

During the voyage of the Hope, before humans hibernated for a long time, Yue Yuan also organized several special meetings of various departments and types.

The most noteworthy is the seminar to explore solutions to human navigation problems. The main discussion revolves around the incompatibility of the fragile human body and the strong power of controlled nuclear fusion.

For Yue Yuan, there are two themes for this meeting. One is to focus on biotechnology and strengthen humans themselves. The other is to focus on material technology and create an acceleration buffer.

For scientists, this conference has only one theme, which is to get money, resources, talents, and research.

Supporters of both sides also launched a heated discussion on these two routes, but just like the dispute between Xu Zhenyi and Yi Kai, they both insisted on their own opinions and there was no result.

This kind of dispute is not actually about denying the other party's route and not studying it, but that everyone believes that they should first increase their investment in their own proposed route.

For this reason, after the meeting, Xu Zhenyi and Yi Kai went to Yue Yuan's office to clarify their views again, hoping that Yue Yuan would give priority to the investment in their own plans.

"Chief, now humans don't have the corresponding biotechnology at all. Not to mention technology, they don't even have the theory to strengthen the body. So it's better to focus on creating the acceleration buffer first. After all, this material technology already has a considerable theoretical basis. . Or give priority to the acceleration buffer, so as to solve the problem of high G acceleration that humans face in the shortest possible time,” Xu Zhenyi said.

Yi Kai on the side immediately shook his head: "Although the acceleration buffer has some theoretical basis, if we really want to do this, we have to upgrade the spacecraft and battleships from beginning to end. After all, the so-called acceleration buffer is also a kind of liquid. Then You have to consider the various electronic devices on the spacecraft operating in this liquid."

"This is not a problem, Dr. Yi!" Xu Zhenyi told Yi Kai his thoughts immediately before he could finish his words: "I have understood it with Dr. Yu Nanfeng from the Engineering Department. We don't need to modify all the facilities in the spacecraft. We only need to Just design a buffer acceleration zone for injecting the acceleration buffer.”

"The problem of electronic equipment is not difficult to solve. We have a coating technology that can separate electronic equipment from liquids. Dr. Yi's original electrical equipment has been replaced with superconducting materials. There is no resistance and heat dissipation problem. The coating technology is completely feasible."