Chapter 271 Meeting after 6,000 Years
The interstellar voyage of the spacecraft is very boring. Even if the distant view of the galaxy is stunning, when you stare at it for decades without any change, you will only feel a sense of loss and despair.
This feeling is like sinking into the deep seabed, wanting to make some sound and shout, but can't say anything, no echo, no change, no change, only eternal coldness.
"This metaphor is very good, but I think most people can't understand it, because we have never seen what the sea looks like, and we can probably only imagine it through ancient images."
Sitting in the cockpit of the spacecraft, a man in a white shirt was holding a teacup and drinking hot drinks. After soaking in hot water, the black spiral algae in the teacup exuded a slight sweetness, adding a touch of freshness to his boring and unchanging life.
"I tried it in the bathtub in the bathroom. I buried my head under the water. It really felt like suffocation. It was very special and fresh." Sitting next to the man was another pilot. He had wine-red hair, was younger, and looked about 25 years old.
"Ah, you are not addicted to the feeling of suffocation, are you? I heard that more than 80 years ago, many people on the ship were addicted to this kind of novelty and died. Later, monitoring devices were installed in the bathroom. If the crew was immersed in water for 30 seconds, an alarm would be sounded."
"Ahaha, how could it be possible? Of course I knew there was an alarm, so I got out of the water before it sounded."
Another person responded with a smile, but the man in the white shirt was still alert, because people who look happy on the surface may not really be laughing in their hearts, and as a driver, it is the position with the strictest psychological quality requirements on the whole ship.
Once the driver has any thoughts of abandoning the world or being negative, it will not affect him alone, but the lives and future of all the people on the ship.
"It's better to do less. If it doesn't work, how about finding a lover to try to reproduce offspring? After all, this pleasure from the instinct of life is still enough to make people yearn for it."
"Well, I feel that the girl I like doesn't like me very much, but unfortunately I don't want to make do with it and find someone else." As he said, the man with wine red hair leaned back in his chair and recalled, talking about his views on women of the same age.
"There are five girls of your age, and you don't like any of the others? In that case, let's relax the restrictions a bit and choose from those with a 10-year age difference. There should be 12 candidates, which should be enough for you to choose."
"Ah, uncle, our ideas are very different. I value that feeling, not an animal that is forced to mate."
"Besides, if you really need people, you can just mate a few groups from the gene pool on the ship. Why hold me so tightly?" The young man shook his head.
"Children born like that will have many problems. If it is not necessary, the ship will not do that." The uncle sighed.
"You don't understand, when the people around you are born and raised by their parents, while you are artificially bred just because of needs, this huge psychological gap and feeling. This leads to most artificially bred lives having psychological problems and cannot hold key positions."
"Humans are social animals. Without any blood ties, people who are manufactured cannot confirm their ties with society, and it is difficult for them to have a so-called sense of belonging."
"When he finds it difficult to feel the warmth and heat of life, he will care less about death. If he doesn't care about death, we can't expect him to firmly abide by his duties."
"I once had a friend of the same age who was born in this way. When I later participated in the process of interrogating him, I asked him why he suddenly did a very different and dangerous operation."
"His answer was that there was no reason, he just acted on a whim at the time and did it. Anyway, that's how life is."
"I still remember his expression at that time, that desire for novelty, like a child who wants to light a fire and watch fireworks in a correct but boring life. He has no attachment and no worries, and naturally cannot restrain this sudden impulse."
"Speaking of this, we have to thank the only writer on the ship, Miss Xilu. Because everyone is waiting to read her serialized stories, she was reluctant to die early. This has reduced the suicide rate on the ship in the past ten years."
"It's a pity that when my friend had the accident, Miss Xilu was only 10 years old. She had just learned to write essays and had not yet started her great serialization."
"I've also read Miss Xilu's stories, but they are not to my taste. Her emotions are very delicate, but I want to read stories about kings and generals who made great achievements. For this, I played all the major games about the Third Age on the ship, and I can recite the relevant history by heart, haha." The young man with short burgundy hair smiled and said. In fact, he is still very optimistic and has hobbies he likes. Otherwise, he would not have been chosen as a pilot.
The two gradually shifted their topics to other topics. First, they talked about fun games, then talked about their favorite images of the opposite sex, and finally talked about supernatural things that happened on the spacecraft.
In this way, time passed quietly until the spacecraft once again broke away from the state of superluminal navigation and arrived at a remote and unknown star system.
"Have we reached our destination? Let me see what this star system has. Maybe we'll be lucky and win the jackpot this time." The wine-red-haired young man poured the iced drink into his mouth to refresh himself, and then quickly operated the instrument and keyboard in front of him to start searching and scanning the situation in the star system.
"Oh--" Suddenly, he let out a long cry, and he didn't even notice that the drink in his mouth fell on his chest.
"What happened." The man in white shirt who was still checking the overall data of the spacecraft turned his head and looked at the screen beside him.
In the lonely and cold star system, a beautiful emerald planet slowly rotated. Although it was still a little blurry, compared with the gray and white planets he had seen countless times before, this color was undoubtedly shocking and made people cry.
"This." Even the usually calm man in white shirt opened his mouth slightly, rubbed his eyes repeatedly, adjusted the scanning position, and repeatedly checked the planet to confirm that he was not dreaming.
"Could it be that we really found it?"
Although they have been on the spacecraft all their lives, they also know from various movies and games that it is the emerald green of life, and it is most likely inherited from the emerald green of ancient earth life, because plants born on other planets may not be green, and only on Earth, due to special historical reasons, all plants have become green.
With excitement that can hardly be suppressed, the two sounded the ship-wide broadcast for the first time.
"I can't describe this surprise in words, but I want to tell everyone, tell those who have been on this ship. We wandering birds have finally found a home to settle down."
"The forest surrounded by breeze, the solid and soft earth, the vast grassland, the waves, the sunshine, the flowers, all these are finally coming towards us!"
"Maybe there are still dangers ahead, but I have been deeply fascinated by it and cannot escape."
"So be it, we flying birds will eventually land here." - Record of "The Strange Birds Landing in the Twin Trees Star Region", Chapter 1 Encounter
(End of this chapter)
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