After setting the auto-cruise mode, Chen Feng returned to his bedroom.

After being busy and exhausted for almost a whole year, he could finally have a good night's sleep.

On Earth, due to the threat of mutant animals and the harassment of various insects, he did not sleep very well most of the time in the past year.

It was only after he got Starship One and Two that things got a little better, but he still felt uneasy.

His psychological confusion also affected the quality of his sleep.

His confusion was clearly reflected in his diary, and it was not until he found Sergei's secret base and set sail successfully that things got a little better.

After Chen Feng fell asleep, Fredes did not sleep, but continued to sit in his bedroom like a statue.

He was forced to change to a new environment and was not able to adapt.

Of course, it didn't seem to make much difference whether Fredes adapted or not. There were stone sculptures everywhere, looking more like a robot without power than a human.

But at this time, he had changed a little compared to before.

Fredes used to seem to be uninterested in everything, but now after getting up every day, he would naturally sit by the window and look out the window.

After the spaceship entered the curvature motion, people could not actually see the starry sky outside.

The perfect curvature bubble formed by the distortion and compression of space cuts off the connection between the inner space and the outer space, and only pure quantum entanglement waves with no mass at all can pass through.

The essence of the curvature bubble is to compress the absolute vacuum to infinite density, which is still absolute space, and the mass is both 0 and infinite.

The starlight from afar falls on the curvature bubble and cannot penetrate it.

All Fredes can see is a dark mass.

After leaving the underground base, his relative activity space has increased, but his absolute activity space has decreased.

No matter how slow he is, the sudden change in his living environment will still have some impact.

He likes to look out the window now, which at least shows that he realizes that outside the window is the "outside world."

In the process of his growth, he has actually been instilled with a lot of knowledge.

His brain structure is different from that of ordinary people, and the central nervous system is almost not involved in language, which leads to his great deficiencies in language and communication.

So far, he only knows two sentences, "Follow me" and "Fredes".

Maybe he doesn't even know the meaning of these two sentences, but he can make the sounds of these two sentences with his vocal cords.

A person who cannot master language cannot establish a complete thinking logic in his brain, and his ability to master theoretical knowledge is almost zero.

Just like deaf-mute and blind people, they usually perform more slowly, but in fact their IQ is not low, but life is like this, and there is nothing they can do about it.

It is too difficult for them to master a language.

When in the underground base, Fredes was busy with his own affairs most of the time, and only with the assistance of artificial intelligence, he acted regularly according to the training plan left by the first generation Sergei.

After getting up every morning, he would go to the operation workshop in the morning to carry out some equipment use and assembly training step by step.

He could not understand or remember the instruction manual, so he could only memorize the operating steps and processes.

After more than ten years, he was able to operate most of the equipment proficiently.

This was all preparation for going to the ground before his death.

His afternoon task was originally to read and study, but due to the defect of his language cardinality, artificial intelligence deleted the content of this part of the training plan and turned it into free time.

So he obviously had unlimited time, but he never read books, just stared blankly, and no one knew what was going on in his mind.

It was the same at this time.

Chen Feng did not prepare any equipment for him to practice in the spaceship, which made him completely idle and even more idle.

Eight hours later, Chen Feng woke up. Fredes was still standing by the window, but his eyes were closed, probably because he fell asleep.

"Sir, I have completed the calculation."

Chen Feng had just sat down in the command room and checked the course when he received a voice prompt from Wei Xing.

He looked down at his watch, and it was exactly 27 hours, 33 minutes, and 56 seconds.

So accurate.

He became increasingly nervous.

As the saying goes, one becomes homesick when one is close to home.

In this era, Chen Feng's hometown is not on Earth, or even in the solar system.

His "homeland" is different and is based on people.

He has to see familiar people to feel the flavor of home.

It has been almost a year since he came here. Apart from Fredes who cannot speak, Chen Feng has not really communicated with anyone, and he is not sure to what extent the humans in the Orion Arm have developed.

He is even more uncertain whether the people he wants to see are still there.

He used to think that he would never be able to contact anyone, and even worried that he would be trapped and die on Earth, so he used self-anesthetization to really assume that everyone was gone, and then think about everything.

If you don't have hope, you won't be disappointed. This is his unique skill to maintain his mentality.

The advantage of this habit is that you can always maintain your fighting spirit and are not easily hit.

The disadvantage is that it is easy to make mistakes in judgment. For example, he has considered committing suicide and starting over next time more than once.

At that time, he convinced himself that suicide could effectively avoid being captured alive by the Compound Eyes.

This is a very good reason.

He had been insisting on this before, just to find the core reason for this failure.

Now that he has read the history, he has vaguely found it and can make some new attempts to find different possibilities.

He can really commit suicide,

but this is a bit too irresponsible.

It is so unfair to other humans in this timeline to give up the whole world so easily without knowing what is happening to the people outside.

So he hesitated, numbly but firmly rebuilt Weixing, and saw the possibility of restoring communications.

Once communications are restored, the fog that shrouds the human civilization in the Orion Arm due to information isolation will be dispelled, and he will be able to quickly determine whether Tang Tianxin, Ding Hu, Lin Bu, Ou Qinglan, Dong Shan and others are still alive.

He is looking forward to it, but also worried.

It feels like he invested a lot of money to buy a lot of scratch-off lottery tickets, scratched a lot but got nothing, and put his last hope on the last lottery ticket he was about to scratch. What

he was afraid of was that after scratching the last lottery ticket, he still saw "Thank you for your patronage".

That would be all.

If there really was no one he knew, Chen Feng would be like a complete stranger to everyone in this era, and he would not be able to find any emotional anchors. He also did not know how that would affect his decision.

"Weixing, first build a signal shielding firewall to prevent your information from leaking out, and then start building a resonant frequency modulation channel to try to passively receive resonant information in a one-way manner."

After thinking for a long time, and even using two glasses of white wine to boost his courage, Chen Feng gave the order.

Wei Xing replied, "Okay."

"Firewall is being built... Construction completed."

"According to the Bose quantum code 154784:546877:65... Creating a resonant channel, the channel was successfully established."

"Searching for external information..."

"Frequency fine-tuning synchronization..."

"The signal has been found. Sir, do you want to try to read the data?"

Chen Feng stood up suddenly.

But he did not rush to give orders, but asked, "Can our information be absolutely independent and not be detected by the other party?"

Wei Xing: "Because I have perfect frequency resonance with the other party's quantum intelligence, as long as I do not issue commands to the outside and actively retrieve data, I can receive the other party's information in a one-way manner without being detected. I can receive all the other party's information, including the top secret channel."

Chen Feng nodded.

He understood what Wei Xing meant.

To put it simply, Weixing is roughly equivalent to two tuning forks at a great distance from Fanxing.

Fanxing, the human brain, is the larger tuning fork, and Weixing is the smaller one.

Striking the large tuning fork emits sound waves.

The sound waves are transmitted far away.

The small tuning fork is exposed to the sound waves and vibrates.

Originally, the small tuning fork should also release sound waves when it vibrates, but because it is too small, the energy level of the sound waves released by passive resonance is too low.

The small sound waves are constantly diluted and offset in the air, and cannot be transmitted back to the large tuning fork at all, interfering with the state of the large tuning fork.

At this time, the relationship between Weixing and Fanxing is basically the same as that between the small tuning fork and the large tuning fork.

Assume that the large tuning fork is an intelligent entity with its own consciousness.

The big tuning fork had no idea that the sound waves it released to the outside were resonated synchronously by another small tuning fork.

Weixing only opened a small quantum beacon at the correct frequency, and all information came from the resonant vibration of this quantum beacon.

Weixing did not actively infuse energy to transmit information to the outside.

However, this tiny resonance is insignificant in the ocean of information. If it is transmitted less than one hundredth of a light year, it will inevitably be shattered by the huge quantum information flow in the external environment.

This state just meets Chen Feng's needs.

He does not plan to take the initiative to tell others that he is here and has just left the solar system.

The advantage of this idea is that it is absolutely safe, and his whereabouts are not easily detected by the compound eye civilization.

The disadvantage is that he cannot actively retrieve the huge amount of information from the Orion Arm humans, and can only sift through the communication data streams transmitted between them, just like a person standing by the railroad tracks taking pictures of trains.

He can take clear pictures of every "train" passing by, but he cannot go to the station to take pictures of all the locomotives.

Of course, every locomotive has to go on the road, and as long as he takes enough time to take pictures, sooner or later he will be able to take pictures of all the locomotives and get enough information.

After confirming that there was no problem, Chen Feng ordered: "Start reading and presenting the information flow."

As soon as he finished speaking, the star map in front of him continued to shrink with the solar system as the center point, and the scale continued to enlarge.

Planetary systems near the solar system, such as Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star, Wolf 359, Lalande 21185, UV Cetus, Sirius, etc., were included in the projection field of view

of the three-dimensional star map. After a long time, the star map became a sphere with a diameter of 5,000 light years.

There were hundreds of millions of bright stars in this sphere.

Hundreds of millions of stars formed a long strip of thread that ran across the two ends of the sphere.

This thread was a section of the Orion Arm.

After a few minutes, complex threads began to run from one planetary system to another among hundreds of millions of stars.

As time went on, the threads became more and more numerous.

The more filaments that are connected to the same galaxy, the brighter the planetary system will be in the star map.

In addition, there are some faint filaments that are beyond the horizon and spread from other places to the star map.

Above the star map, there is a column of statistics that is being rapidly improved.

"The number of planets with human information activities: 79...87...135...796...3154...7218...11512...13577..."

This is the number of stars with human activities that Weixing has calculated based on the information flow that has been continuously collected during this period.

The numbers rose very quickly at the beginning, indicating that humans have maintained a very high frequency of information exchange with each other.

Later on, the rate of increase slowed down a little, perhaps because the colonies in these star systems had just been built and the population density was not high enough, so the first message was just sent out within these few minutes.

Wei Xing quickly gave an estimate, "The total number of planetary systems with human activities in the Orion Arm should be around 14,400. The quantum information flow outside the field of view should come from scientific exploration spacecraft."

Chen Feng nodded heavily, "Yes. Continue to analyze the current technological level, administrative system, regional division and other aspects of humanity, and then you focus on these names. They look like this... Report to me in three hours."

After giving the order again, Chen Feng stood up and walked out of the command room and returned to the bar in the rear living area.

He poured himself a second pot of wine and drank it in one big gulp.

He clenched his fist, very hard.

Humans occupy 14,400 stars in the Orion Arm and have a vast territory of 5,000 light years.

He had never dared to imagine such a scene before.

He had never even dreamed of it.

He could not describe his feelings as he watched planetary systems light up one after another in the star map, and the threads representing the flow of information connected to form the large network representing the territory of the human empire.

Surging?

Yes.

Emotional?

Yes. Good times after bad times

?

All of them.

Perhaps only the seven words "parting the dark clouds to see the bright moon" can somewhat accurately express his state of mind.

Although he had seen descriptions in history books about humans successfully establishing thousands of colonies, that was five hundred years ago after all, and no one knew what had happened in the past five hundred years.

He had imagined that the territory of mankind would be very large this time, but he was always uneasy when he didn't see it with his own eyes.

He was no longer at the age where he could easily have beautiful dreams.

After nearly a year of lonely struggle on Earth, now, he finally tore through the fog with his own hands and saw the truth he had dreamed of.

His heart beat very fast and violently.

Chen Feng drank the wine in the glass again, and recalled the star map and the big network representing the information exchange of mankind in his mind.

He murmured to himself.

"I knew it long ago, humans can do it, really can! As long as we are given time, we can do anything!"

Bang!

He punched the alloy bar again.

He first experienced the frustration of creating the doomsday with his own hands on Earth, but now he suddenly got another unparalleled sense of accomplishment.

These two contradictory and strong emotions intersected in him, causing him to lose control of his emotions temporarily.

Maybe it was because he drank too much, or maybe it was because his emotions were too strong.

He vaguely saw the disgusting fly-like face of the Compound Eye floating in front of the bar, looking at him with a mixture of hatred, fear and jealousy.

Bang!

Chen Feng threw the bottle and smashed it against the wall.

"This is the empire I built with nine timelines! This is just the beginning! I don't care if you are a Compound Eye or anyone else, all of you die!"

"Humanity! Never stop moving forward! I said!"

Knowing it was an illusion, he wanted to break it.

Chen Feng opened the second bottle of double pot.

The third bottle...

the fourth bottle...

He didn't know how many bottles he had drunk in a row. Even with his current physique far exceeding 40% of the gene awakening degree, he couldn't handle it. Even the authentic Houkui he cooked himself couldn't help him get rid of the hangover.

It might be that he didn't want to stay awake on his own initiative. He

was under too much pressure, and it was not until this moment that he suddenly relaxed.

He chose to get drunk.