Chapter 280: cold star
The crooked moon in the sky has gradually fallen, and the stars have quietly hidden their figures. There is already a bright color in the eastern sky, but that bright color is only limited to the horizon, and it cannot affect the entire sky and the world.
It was in the early hours of the morning, the world was still in the bright stage, and the sun had not fully risen. Few people would choose to get up so early this winter morning, but Xiao Yun suddenly sat up from the bed at this time, and then gasped heavily.
There was automatic temperature control in the room, but it was broken and not working. So the temperature in this room is not high, it can even be said to be a little cold. Xiao Yun**'s chest was exposed to the slightly cold air like this. If you look closely, you can still see the fine beads of sweat coming out from under the skin.
I don't know how many times, since Xiao Yun returned from the "Laka" galaxy, Xiao Yun has fallen into an endless nightmare. In the full month after returning home, Xiao Yun woke up from a nightmare at least half of the morning. Every time he woke up, Xiao Yun would break out in a cold sweat, and this time was no exception.
Those scenes kept revolving in Xiao Yun's mind, no matter how hard Xiao Yun tried to forget, they always stayed in Xiao Yun's mind and refused to leave.
The debris of the explosion, the tragically killed teammates, the dark sky, the hideous monsters... All these elements were woven into a big net in Xiao Yun's mind, entangling Xiao Yun tightly and never letting go.
In an accurate sense, seventeen years have passed since this incident, but if only Xiao Yun was awake. This time was shortened to less than five years. Because the Raqqa galaxy is also nine light-years away from one of the most distant observatories of human civilization. And that observatory is... twenty-five light-years away from the solar system. Thirty-four light-years away. Xiao Yun spent twelve years of hibernation and a total of five years of sobriety, sailing at twice the speed of light for a full seventeen years before returning from the Raqqa galaxy to the solar system and back to where he was on Earth. above the home.
In the accurate sense, it is seventeen years, and only counting the time of waking up is five years, but if it is measured by Xiao Yun's own personal feelings... Xiao Yun feels that it happened yesterday. It seems that his teammates died tragically in the last moment, and it seems that the base that he and his teammates built up was only occupied in the last moment...
Xiao Yun took a few minutes to calm down. Xiao Yun raised his head and saw the familiar decorations in the room. There was already some faint light pouring into the room through the curtains. Everything in this room is shrouded in a hazy beauty.
After he was finally sure that he was on the earth, Xiao Yun's mind stabilized. At this time, it was obviously impossible to continue sleeping, so Xiao Yun climbed down from the bed, picked up something to eat, and prepared to report to the Academy of Computing Science after a while.
Despite such tragic events, life must go on. As a member of the Academy of Computing Science under the Central Academy of Sciences, Xiao Yun's research tasks are also very heavy.
But at this moment, there was a knock on the door. Xiao Yun put on his coat a little irritably, walked over and opened the door. I saw two cold faces.
One of them shook the certificate marked "Deep Space Security Investigation Bureau" in front of Xiao Yun, and then said, "Hello Xiao Yun. We are ordered to investigate the unidentified life attack in the Raqqa galaxy that you have experienced. We I have some questions to ask you, and I hope to get your cooperation."
Now that human civilization has truly entered the interstellar era and has already printed its footprints in hundreds of outer star systems, the investigation and data collection of alien civilization has once again gained people's attention. The Deep Space Security Investigation Agency is such an agency. They are responsible for investigating all incidents that may be related to alien civilizations encountered by human beings in the exploration of the stars. Therefore, what Xiao Yun has experienced will inevitably attract their attention.
The fact is, including this time, Xiao Yun has been questioned by the Deep Space Security Investigation Bureau seven or eight times since he returned to Earth. The people of the Investigation Bureau obtained the logbook of the "Xingchen" spacecraft that Xiao Yun was riding in in detail, monitored the screen, and carefully analyzed every part of the spacecraft that was damaged or affected by external objects, and also carefully used it. In a somewhat cumbersome manner, he repeatedly asked Xiao Yun many questions.
This may be a serious and responsible performance for the people of the Investigation Bureau, but it is not the case for Xiao Yun. Every time he is interrogated, for Xiao Yun, it is like opening up the scars of the past and exposing the pain in his heart once again. Therefore, Xiao Yun has always been angry with the people of the Investigation Bureau.
But this is also something that can't be helped. Cooperating with the investigation of the Deep Space Security Bureau has been written into the regulations of cosmic exploration practitioners. No matter who it is, no matter what identity, as long as it involves deep space exploration, then the Bureau of Investigation will have power to interrogate him.
So Xiao Yun could only suppress the impatience in his heart. Xiao Yun turned around and walked into the room, turned his back to the two people in the Investigation Bureau, and said coldly, "Please come in."
There was no sense of unwelcome among the two investigators. They followed Xiao Yun into the room with serious faces, and then sat down opposite Xiao Yun unceremoniously. One of the investigators took out a recording tool, and the other asked: "Xiao Yun, the Laka Galaxy is a place that our human civilization has never set foot in. Human civilization has extremely strict regulations for exploring such a star field. Everyone in the Stardust spacecraft has identities and professional backgrounds related to deep space exploration. As an artificial intelligence expert, why did you follow the Stardust spacecraft to the Raqqa galaxy?"
This is the fifth time Xiao Yun has been asked this question. Xiao Yun has heard that some investigators like to ask the same question to the person under investigation repeatedly, and then record all the answers, and find a breakthrough by comparing the differences between these answers. Obviously, what Xiao Yun is facing at the moment That's right.
But Xiao Yun knew that he was not lying. Therefore, apart from becoming more and more impatient, Xiao Yun didn't have the slightest panic or nervousness in his heart. Xiao Yun said: "The Raqqa galaxy is a sub-brown dwarf galaxy, and its host star is a cold star. According to the research of our Academy of Computing Science, we believe that a special chip material may be formed in such a cold star. Computers made of this chip material will have very powerful computing power in comparison, so I applied to follow the Stardust spacecraft after I learned that the Central Academy of Sciences had begun to organize a multi-departmental exploration plan for the Raqqa galaxy. go."
Brown dwarfs are amazing stars whose masses are so low that they cannot trigger hydrogen fusion. Compared with real stars, they are more like a kind of existence between planets and stars, or they are failed stars.
There are many such stars in the universe, but because they are too dim and the temperature is too low, it is not easy to find them.
Compared with brown dwarfs, sub-brown dwarfs are even more difficult to find. Sub-brown dwarfs have a lower mass than brown dwarfs, and they can't even trigger the fusion of deuterium and lithium, but if they are planets, they don't really look like them. Because they have the same formation process as normal stars, they are formed due to the collapse of nebulae, and their masses are much larger than planets in the usual sense. To say they are stars, they are too small and too cold.
The Raqqa galaxy is one such star system. Therefore, although the Raqqa galaxy is only a few dozen light-years away from the solar system, human civilization has not discovered this star until recently. The Raqqa galaxy cannot trigger nuclear fusion reactions inside, and it is only stabilized by electron degeneracy pressure—the same form that exists in white dwarfs. But its surface temperature is much lower than that of a white dwarf, only about 300 degrees Kelvin—about the temperature of a human body.
It is precisely because Xiao Yun believes that there will be a very special material existing on this kind of star during the research process, and this special material is very suitable for the development of more advanced computer chips, so Xiao Yun, an artificial intelligence expert, will apply to follow The Stardust spacecraft went to explore this star system together After hearing Xiao Yun's answer, the researcher was silent for a while, and then continued to ask: "According to the information we have obtained now, we have You know, in the entire Academy of Computing Science, you are the only one who thinks that some kind of special material on the cold stars will help the development of new computing chips."
Xiao Yun replied angrily: "So you think it was a conspiracy that I followed the Stardust spacecraft to the Raqqa galaxy? You think it was a premeditated thing, I killed all the rest of the spacecraft. Crew, then disguised as an encounter with an unknown alien creature, and then I escaped alone?"
"We don't think so, we have surveillance data to prove your innocence," the investigator said, "We're just wondering if...you, and the unknown alien life you're talking about...is there anything... ."
Xiao Yun was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Why do you say that?"
The researcher replied: "Because... a total of three hundred and sixty-seven people, all of whom died except you. So do you think it was your luck? Or was it some kind of inevitability?" ( To be continued.)