Chapter 137 Lights
The car continued to move forward, but there seemed to be a traffic jam ahead.
After getting out of the car and looking around, Liu Yu saw a huge lift in front of him, carrying a worker to a height of more than ten meters, who was replacing the light bulb for the street lamp.
Liu Yu suddenly realized.
After looking at the street lights where I was, I found that the street lights that had fallen into disrepair due to lack of demand had now been replaced.
Liu Yu could see people busy working not only under the street lights but also on the buildings nearby.
They hung outside the building, checking the wiring and replacing damaged building lighting fixtures.
Finally buying more light strips, Liu Yu hurried back home and laid out all the light strips and bulbs.
After carefully connecting the circuit and pressing the switch, the entire courtyard was instantly bathed in a rainbow of light. Even though it was still daytime, it was dazzling.
At this time, Liu Yu, who had been busy all day, finally had some free time.
After a quick lunch, it was already evening.
She turned on the switch, lighting up all the light strips and bulbs, and drove hurriedly towards the hill outside Dajing City.
Along the way, as the sky gradually darkened, one light strip after another lit up. The entire Dajing City seemed to have transformed into a city of light, a city of seven colors.
After climbing to the top of the hill and finding a flat stone, Liu Yu sat down and waited.
The sky gradually darkened.
Thousands of stars rise up and the vast Milky Way stretches across the sky.
Liu Yu's heart was gradually filled with excitement. She raised her head and carefully searched the sky for something.
After a long time, she finally saw a bright star.
The star rose from below the horizon and slowly moved towards the center of the sky.
Although it moves very slowly, it is still very conspicuous compared to the rest of the almost stationary stars.
Ding-a-ling...
The phone rings.
Liu Yu answered the call, and Zhou Cheng's cheerful voice came over: "Ayu, do you see me?"
Liu Yu looked at the star in the sky, tears streaming down her face with excitement: "I see it, I see it, I see you! You are on that star, you are on the star!"
The star seemed to have a huge gravitational force, which made Liu Yu's eyes follow it closely and he could not move away.
This was the first time in nearly two years that the two had a conversation with almost no delay.
Because at this moment the two of them are only more than a thousand kilometers apart.
Liu Yu stared at the star infatuatedly and raised his arm unconsciously, as if he wanted to catch the star in his hand.
Neither of them spoke anymore, just quietly listening to each other's breathing.
In space, inside the zero-gravity cabin of a spaceship, Zhou Cheng quietly looked through the glass at the dark Earth that had already entered the night.
He had seen pictures of the Earth taken from space by human astronauts during their heyday.
In that picture, every night, the lights on the earth will light up and can be clearly seen even from space.
But at this moment, Zhou Cheng looked carefully but did not see any light.
It seemed as if the entire earth had fallen into a deep sleep.
No, that's not right.
Zhou Cheng saw a glimmer of light.
That is the location of Dajing City!
A little light belonging to human civilization is stubbornly shining on the back of the dark earth, like a candle in the wind and rain. Although it is weak, it never refuses to go out.
Liu Yu's voice came out.
"Ah Cheng, do you know? Those lights are all lit for you.
All the lights in the whole city are on, just so that you can see, so that you don’t lose your way home, and so that you can see where home is.
Now, everyone in the city is awake and watching you."
Zhou Cheng's eyes gradually became moist.
No matter where I am, in this vast universe, there is always a light waiting for me, illuminating the road to my future.
Time passed quietly and the communication was finally disconnected.
Holding the turned-off cell phone, Liu Yu was still chasing the shining star in the sky and said the words he had not dared to say before.
"Acheng, I miss you so much..."
…
Time slowly passed. In Zhou Cheng's eyes, the gigantic Earth shrank again, becoming an ordinary sphere. Then, it gradually became a shining dot, losing all its detailed structure.
The communication delay with the Earth is getting higher and higher, and correspondingly, the Sun is getting bigger and bigger.
This is the third and final stage of the voyage.
During this stage, the Hope spacecraft will use the gravity of Venus to further slow down, and eventually catch up with Mercury and enter Mercury's orbit.
As time passed and the voyage increased, Zhou Cheng noticed that there were more and more faults on the Hope spacecraft.
Compared with the previous failures that blew off a hatch and a solar panel, these failures at this moment are undoubtedly much smaller and can be handled normally.
But the rapid increase in their numbers is telling Zhou Cheng a reality.
The risks will become greater and greater in the future.
Zhou Cheng's work became increasingly busy, and even the videos he recorded and sent to Liu Yu every day became shorter and shorter.
Apart from necessary rest, Zhou Cheng spent almost all of his time repairing and inspecting spacecraft failures.
If there is a fault, they will repair it. If there is no fault, they will check the spacecraft hull over and over again, and check every functional module of the spacecraft, for fear that there may be hidden dangers.
On this day, after finishing all the work, Zhou Cheng was finally able to go back to the lounge and take a nap.
Tying himself to the safety rope, Zhou Cheng floated in the zero-gravity environment and slowly fell asleep.
Over the past two years, he has become accustomed to this way of falling asleep.
But while he was still asleep, he was awakened by a burst of urgent alarms.
He subconsciously opened his eyes, looked at the control panel, and instantly became alert.
Solar flare!
While he was sleeping, a solar flare erupted!
Due to some violent activities related to the magnetic field in the solar atmosphere, a large number of high-energy charged particles are "blown" out from the sun, sweeping across the entire solar system like wind.
These high-energy charged particles can damage the electronic components of the spacecraft and are extremely harmful.
The Hope spacecraft is of course protected against this, and the Earth team and Zhou Cheng himself are continuing to work on forecasting solar flares.
But just like weather forecasts, people can only make trend predictions over a longer period of time. It is very difficult to make accurate forecasts of the weather at a specific time and place.
What's more, the environment on the surface of the sun is thousands of times more complex than that of the earth!
The most important point is that the Hope spacecraft is closer to the sun than the earth is.
This means that the solar wind will reach the Hope spacecraft before reaching the Earth.
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