LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 146 145 Proxima Centauri
Chapter 146 145. Proxima Centauri
In the end, Chen Shibo drove the researchers back to the imaginary space, leaving only a few pilots to pilot the spacecraft.
In this way, Chen Shibo rested in his presidential suite for twenty-five hours before the driver's voice came from the radio.
"Mr. Chen, there is something here that I want you to take a look at."
Chen Shibo raised his head when he heard this and asked, "Have you arrived at Proxima Centauri?"
"no."
The other side replied, "It's still an hour away from Proxima Centauri, but we found a spacecraft in this blank area."
"spaceship?"
Chen Shibo's heart moved, and he appeared directly in the cab the next second.
Immediately, he saw a huge cigar-shaped spacecraft gliding slowly forward directly in front of the observation window of the cab.
The spacecraft was already riddled with holes, pitted and dilapidated. Several large holes and traces of burning could even be seen. The spacecraft was slightly smaller than the spacecraft he was in.
At this time, the tail flame of the spacecraft has been extinguished, and the entire ship is dark. No light can be seen in the spacecraft. Only the words TLLB-2280-0345 are still marked on the hull.
Seeing this scene, Chen Shibo immediately understood that this spaceship was nothing else, but an immigrant ship that humans had used to send unnatural people into space.
2280 means that this immigrant ship was launched in 2280, and 0345 means that this is the 345th spacecraft launched this year, which means that this immigrant ship has been sailing in deep space for nearly 600 years.
He still remembered that the information he got from the Shinra Company stated that due to the requirements of the Elda people, the Terra Federation needs to send hundreds of millions of people to fly into deep space every year. Obviously this is one of them. This project has continued. For more than two hundred years, it has not stopped even if the Ada fleet was unexpectedly destroyed.
Because the Terra Federation at that time was not sure whether the Ada people had been exterminated, the frequency of dispatches decreased in the later period, but it did not stop completely.
The final stop date was the day when the Chen family completely destroyed the first generation of the Terra Federation. Since then, no unnatural person has been sent into space.
"We checked for signs of life inside this craft and found nothing."
At this time, the driver reported again.
"Stop the space jump for now, I'll go over and take a look."
Chen Shibo didn't say much, but jumped again and appeared inside the spacecraft.
Today, Chen Shibo's body functions have reached a certain limit, and he can survive for several hours even in the deep space of minus 270 degrees and in the airless vacuum.
It wasn't until he arrived here that Chen Shibo was completely sure that there was no living life on the spacecraft, because he found that the entire spacecraft had been completely penetrated by unknown meteorites, all the air pressure in the spacecraft had leaked, and the entire ship had become like the universe. It's almost as cold as ice.
He slowly came to the hall of the spacecraft, only to see that the hall was densely packed with hibernation cabins in a honeycomb shape. Most of these hibernation cabins remained intact, but the people inside had already suffocated to death.
Just like pieces of amber, the sleeper inside is sealed forever.
The hibernation function of the human body is one of the human bionics projects developed as early as the mid-21st century. The reason is that a biological company discovered that so far, all living things on the earth actually have the so-called ability to hibernate. This The location is mostly in the hypothalamus of the brain of living things.
As early as the Cretaceous period, mammals evolved the ability to hibernate due to the harsh environment and lack of food. However, as the environment became warmer and warmer, the hibernation threshold of some predators became higher and higher, so some prey animals Gradually, they become afraid to hibernate, but the genes for hibernation have always existed in the bodies of these animals.
After a series of studies on mammals, the company found that almost all animals can hibernate after using drugs or surgery, and even stop or even achieve methylation of genes during hibernation. Negative growth.
Gene methylation has always been the criterion for identifying biological lifespan. If a gene is too methylated, it will cause the gene itself to think that it is too old, causing cells to actively age.
So this company began to explore whether humans can also slow down gene methylation and extend lifespan through hibernation. After a series of experiments, they found that humans do have a hibernation switch. Perhaps this ability was given by the ancestors of mammals, or perhaps It is a magical coincidence of nature. In short, humans, like all animals, have the ability to hibernate.
This switch is located among several neurons in the hypothalamus of the human brain. Through stimulation of a certain frequency of ultrasonic waves, it can actively lower the human body temperature. At the same time, the body's energy is converted from sugar and protein heat production to only using Fat generates heat and enters a sleeping, low-power mode.
In this mode, the human body's temperature will drop from 36 degrees to less than 10 degrees, and the heartbeat and breathing rate will also drop to one-tenth of the previous level, so humans will also fall into corresponding hibernation.
With this function, the aging rate of humans has also been reduced to one-tenth, which means that people who can only live 150 years old can survive for 1,500 years in hibernation!
The experimental success of this project brought a tsunami-like earthquake to human bionics at that time. Soon this function was used in the treatment of cancer, because at low temperatures, the growth of cancer cells was not only inhibited, but also caused the emergence of cancer. Signs of active cell necrosis.
In this state, the cancer will not continue to worsen. It is only necessary to eliminate the cancer cells at this time, which is the best way to deal with cancer at that time.
It's just that this ability is used to assist cancer treatment or secondarily. The real use is actually the exploration of the starry sky. Once life is extended in the form of hibernation, then many plans to explore the starry sky can be fully launched. At the same time, it also solves the problem of people staying in the spacecraft. This series of unique advantages makes human hibernation technology a necessity for interstellar navigation.
Recalling the knowledge about hibernation technology in his mind, Chen Shibo looked at the rows of hibernation cabins stacked together in the hall. Even though this spacecraft was only one kilometer long and several hundred meters high, it actually contained a total of Five million people were killed, but at this time, these five million people had already become iron coffins floating in the deep space of the universe forever due to the crash of the spacecraft.
I just don’t know how many of the same iron coffins are floating alone in this universe?
The answer is obvious. Without the corresponding long-distance navigation technology, the Terra Federation has sent tens of billions of people for hundreds of years, and I am afraid that not many of them can really survive.
So Chen Shibo didn't hesitate anymore, he directly used the imaginary number space to swallow up the iron coffin, and then returned to his big spoke.
"Master Chen?"
Several drivers looked back at Chen Shibo.
"It's nothing, just a wrecked human immigration ship. Let's move on."
"yes."
After hearing Chen Shibo's order, these pilots continued to drive the spacecraft and jumped forward.
The reason why Chen Stroboscopic goes to Proxima Centauri this time is that in addition to the fact that Proxima Centauri is the closest star to humans, there is another reason why it is the existence of Proxima Centauri b.
Proxima Centauri b is a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. Its mass is about 1.2~1.3 times that of its parent star Terra. Its revolution period is 11 days. Its location is just in the habitable zone of the star system. The temperature of the planet is about It's minus 39 degrees.
Back then, the Terra Federation launched at least dozens of immigrant ships towards Proxima Centauri. If any of these immigrant ships could successfully arrive, Chen Shibo would probably be able to see these immigrants landing on Proxima Centauri after arriving at Proxima Centauri. A long spaceship.
In fact, these immigrant ships are not just spaceships. They have anti-gravity systems and can successfully land on the planet. After landing, they can be easily dismantled and turned into temporary colonies.
At the same time, there is a certain amount of supplies on the spacecraft. If they are used sparingly, these supplies will be enough for the people on the spacecraft to develop a small colony on the local planet.
When the Big Spoke completely entered the territory of Proxima Centauri, it indeed detected the existence of Proxima Centauri b. After several jumps, the Big Spoke completely arrived over Proxima Centauri b.
This is a reddish-brown planet. It looks like there is no water on the surface, but it is somewhat similar to Mars. This is also true. Proxima Centauri b is a planet with a surface full of iron oxide, but there is a huge amount of water inside the planet. Water resources are one of the reasons why the immigration spacecraft chose this target.
However, after the Big Spoke orbited the planet at a low altitude for several weeks, Chen Shibo's heart sank because the spacecraft indeed detected the wreckage of several spaceships. The wreckage of these spaceships was piled up on the plains of a planet. It looks like a city from a high altitude, but there is still no life found.
Chen Shibo did not let the Big Spoke descend to the surface of the planet, but directly jumped into the wreckage of the city.
Suddenly, he came to the ruins of a colony that was already rusty and almost completely weathered.
The sky is clear and brown, but the star above is not the orange color of the sun, but has a hint of dark red, because Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star, which also makes its planet permanently in a dim red world. , and because the distance is too close, Proxima b has been tidally locked by Proxima Centauri, with one side always in daytime and the other side always in night.
At this time, Chen Shibo did not pay attention to this, but silently felt the temperature of the ground. It seemed that it was because of the atmosphere on the planet, or because the sun hemisphere faced the star directly. In short, the temperature on the planet was not There is no estimated minus 39 degrees, but around zero degrees.
With an oxygen-containing atmosphere, underground water, and a fairly low ground temperature, this is already a very suitable planet for humans, even more suitable than Mars in the past.
However, Chen Shibo also saw this temporary colony at this time. The colony was split and transformed from several immigrant ships, but the degree of newness and oldness were not consistent. In other words, these immigrant ships did not arrive at the same planet, but There is a sequence.
Not only that, among the small yurts and corridors built by immigrant ships, Chen Shibo also saw many collapsed buildings. As he walked in, he even saw a huge corpse that had been dried. corpse.
These corpses have been stripped of moisture by the planet, but each of them maintains their appearance before death. Most of them are holding their own throats, and some are still crawling, and then they are completely frozen in time.
Chen Shibo couldn't tell how long these people had been dead, but he could tell that their deaths seemed to be caused by an accident. For some unknown reason, the originally built temporary colony had an internal air leak, because the oxygen content It was too low, and the planet's atmosphere contained a variety of toxic substances, so the immigrants were caught off guard and died here.
Seeing this, Chen Shibo continued to move forward along these building passages, and soon came to deeper rooms. The deeper he went, the more corpses there were. He even found some rooms that had been sealed until now, but after violently opening the door, they were discovered. It was found that the bodies inside had more ways of dying.
Some corpses lowered their heads with guns, but a big hole was blown in their heads. They apparently committed suicide by swallowing the gun. There was a mess all around, and all the food and water had disappeared.
Suddenly, a scene flashed through Chen Shibo's mind - these groups of immigrants had already survived tenaciously on Proxima b, and the colony was becoming increasingly complete. However, one day, for some reason, the colony suddenly There were signs of an external air pressure leak, and a group of unprepared colonists were immediately poisoned.
In addition, the deeper colonists immediately cut off these passages to maintain the oxygen in the colony, but they discovered that there was a leak in the hydroponic plant room, and the entire colony lost its food supply.
So they spent various methods to collect the remaining food, and also used various methods to repair those rooms, but ultimately failed. So in this desperate situation, the entire colony inevitably died.
Similar scenes are not uncommon. In fact, countless similar situations occurred when humans immigrated to the moon, Mars and even Europa. The prosperity of humans on these planets today is actually nothing more than countless pioneers who have followed.
Chen Zhongshan walked through the rooms and sighed silently as he looked at the corpses scattered on the ground.
He knew that there was no need to investigate anymore.
This colony has been abandoned for hundreds of years. It is impossible that there are still humans alive. Even if some hydroponic bases are not damaged, the resources there can only sustain a few people.
Hundreds of years later, the remaining people would of course have died long ago.
He used the imaginary number space to check it, and sure enough he found that there was no consciousness projection of any life on the planet. But what he didn't expect was that there was a small green shadow in the imaginary number space.
"This location is... the center of the planet? The fountain of life?"
Seeing this, Chen Quanfeng's heart suddenly moved.