Chapter 228 Leaving the Sun
The letter sent by Chu Hai to Wei Feng described it as follows: "The energy collection instruments made by several major mineral resource companies almost cover the entire atmosphere of Jupiter and Saturn. The long-term mining of hydrogen and helium almost changed the atmosphere structure of these two planets. Every day, heavy-duty spacecraft loaded with fusion energy leave the two planets and flew to the inner solar system. However, the demand for energy on Earth and Mars, Venus' living circle and Mercury heavy industrial base is like a bottomless pit, and it cannot be filled in any case... The investigation report of the scientific research department pointed out that the average daily demand for fusion energy alone has reached the level of tens of billions of tons, and the average daily demand for fusion energy around the Venus agricultural belt has exceeded 5 billion tons."
"Among several habitable planets and satellites, the Earth is undoubtedly ranked first. It has air that can breathe freely without processing, and there are countless beautiful scenery. Therefore, the Earth is the first to enter a full load state. Now, the total population living on the Earth has exceeded 50 billion, and the population of Mars has exceeded 20 billion. In addition to these two most important habitable planets, the large number of space living islands built in the inner solar system carry 10 billion people."
"These three places gather almost all the elite groups in human civilization. Due to the increase in cost of living and the increasingly fierce competition, a large number of civilians and poor people have to migrate to the outer solar system. Jupiter's moons, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune's moons are all developed as much as possible to carry more people. But the farther away from the sun, the worse the living environment is. They still bear the heaviest labor, but the wealth they create is gathered in the inner solar system and cannot be used to improve their own living conditions."
"When energy output reaches the upper limit, the government will inevitably require priority to ensure the energy demand of the Earth, Mars and space island living circles, and this will further reduce the quality of life of the outer solar system population, which accounts for 70% of the total population. Wei Feng, do you know that this has become an unresolved contradiction. No matter how hard the government works, it will eventually only ease the contradiction and cannot eliminate this contradiction. This contradiction will break out one day."
"Our solar system has really become an isolated island in this boundless starry sea. The resource output in the isolated island is limited, but the population is increasing. We urgently need to get out of this isolated island, go to a wider continent, and seek more planets and energy sources. But our technology has never been able to make breakthroughs."
Wei Feng left the portable computer and walked to the side of the spacecraft porthole. Looking at the boundless darkness outside the window, Wei Feng felt lost.
This result was long ago as Wei Feng expected, but when this result really happened, Wei Feng still felt a little unacceptable. After all, it was his hometown and a place he would go back one day.
Standing in front of the porthole for a long time, Wei Feng sighed long, picked up the tools in his hand again, and began to repair the spacecraft.
More than a hundred years have passed, and during this period, the Xinghai spacecraft did not have any major failures. The Ye Luo also operated roughly well. The frequency of various small parts was getting higher and higher, which means that Wei Feng had to devote more time and energy to maintaining the spacecraft.
After all, this is an old spacecraft that has been working for more than a hundred years... In the solar system, there must be no instrument that has the opportunity to work for a hundred years.
Since passing by the unknown alien civilization device, Wei Feng has never discovered any possible alien civilization creations. Not only that, he has never encountered a natural object here. This is the area where the Alt Cloud exists in speculation. But the emptiness here is beyond Wei Feng's imagination.
Although Wei Feng did not observe any macroscopic objects here, this does not mean that the existence of the Orte Cloud has been overturned. The total mass of the Orte Cloud in the calculation is not as good as the mass of the earth. It is normal to spread these mass into a disk with a total length of six light years.
Wei Feng drove out of the Ort Cloud area calmly and left the solar system completely. This was originally a moment of great historical significance, but Wei Feng did not feel any excitement in his heart, and some were just loneliness that penetrated deep into his bones.
The delay in the two-way communication between here and the earth has been as high as two years, but because of the existence of the large antennas in the solar system, Wei Feng can still maintain contact with the earth. However, this connection has become increasingly weak. When it was close at the beginning, Chu Hai and Wei Feng often transmitted some video files, but later they could only transmit sound files. Now, they can only transmit text information.
I'm afraid that after a little further away, the Xinghai spacecraft will lose its ability to send information to the Earth. However, according to calculations, the Xinghai spacecraft's ability to receive information from the Earth will not be lost. Even if it finally arrives in the South Gate two galaxy, the information sent by the Earth can be received by the Xinghai spacecraft.
Another decade passed, and Wei Feng woke up again as promised. Without Wei Feng's expectations, letters were still sent to the earth. Perhaps it was because the government had forgotten the island plan. In the past few decades, all the letters sent from the earth were compiled by the Time Traveler team. The government ignored this at all, neither issued instructions nor responded to some Wei Feng's reports.
Wei Feng thought that the human world probably had forgotten the existence of the Time Traveler Team. Being forgotten is not a good feeling, but Wei Feng did not feel any turmoil in his heart. Because Wei Feng knew that being forgotten was originally the fate of the Time Traveler Team.
"Wei Feng, I'm sorry that what I told you this time is still bad news. The "dead knot" theory has also been confirmed. Before we step out of the solar system, the technology of our human civilization may really not be able to make any progress."
"I heard that this government has intended to respond to the theory of dead knots, and the head of state intends to concentrate its efforts to promote large-scale exploration of the external solar system to seek technological progress. But we are not optimistic about the prospects of this plan. Because the contradictions within human civilization are now very prominent, and if we spend huge resources to conduct external solar system detection, it is easy to cause social turmoil. I hope our human civilization has good luck enough to obtain enough technology before the society finally collapses."
"Well, by the way, there are likely to be many task instructions sent here in a while. The scientific research department may hope that you will do some early space detection to lay the groundwork for subsequent large-scale actions." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!