Hot Wavelength

Chapter 66 (New Generation 2): To Hope

December 21, 2037, Rocket City, Saskatchewan, Liang Kingdom

Today is the winter solstice, and also Daphne's 38th birthday. Little Vito is already 7 years old, running around in the yard, sometimes grabbing Michael's strong arm and hanging in mid-air, playful and adorable.

Michael and Daphne's prefab house faces the bay, with the launch site clearly visible on the beach. The Flamingo 13 heavy rocket stands tall on the launch pad, the VESSEL spacecraft about to launch.

1977 was the optimal time window for humans to launch probes into the outer solar system, calculated by astronomers. Due to the coincidence of the giant planets' orbital positions, spacecraft launched from Earth were able to pass by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in sequence.

While exploring these giant planets, the spacecraft can also utilize their gravitational slingshot effect to accelerate itself and eventually fly out of the solar system. Such a window of opportunity only occurs approximately once every 165 years.

In August and September of that year, the Liangguo Space Agency launched the Gipsy 8 and Gipsy 9 probes, respectively. Thanks to the efforts of astronomers, the spacecraft's system malfunctions were repaired multiple times over extremely long distances, and to this day, they can still maintain communication with Earth.

Sixty years have passed, 165 years? Michael doesn't want to wait another 100 years.

Fortunately, the VESSEL's mission wasn't to explore giant planets, but rather to find Planet X and send humanity's second calling card. Although Michael improved the space propulsion system, increasing the ship's speed was still necessary.

The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs approximately every twenty years. Over the past 60 years, or three cycles, since 1977, Jupiter and Saturn have been in almost the same relative position on the celestial sphere.

Therefore, 2037 is also a good time window for launching spacecraft.

The energy source comes from the direction of Orion. Michael chose the launch date to coincide with Earth's winter solstice, close to midnight, when Orion will be at its zenith.

The Big Ship spacecraft represents over two decades of hard work by Michael's team. In recent years, in particular, inspired by the Mayan Long Count calendar, he reconstructed the underlying logic of computer chips using a five-state decimal system.

To further improve computing speed, Michael's team fused brain tissue removed from Vito's epilepsy surgery with a five-state decimal chip, creating a high-speed, low-power brain-computer interface chip.

Silicon carbide chips are sealed in chambers with high oxygen concentrations, and their lifespan is limited.

During the first few decades of the Great Ship's long voyage, brain-computer interfaces will power supercomputers to operate at high speeds, training large artificial models. Living robots modeled after Vito the Little will also continuously upgrade and "evolve" during the journey.

The combined consciousness of Michael and Daphne will merge with the ever-evolving AI model and Vito the living robot to form the "most powerful brain" of the super humanoid robot.

If the consciousness of two people can actually be uploaded and merged into the same computer, then can more people do the same?

At least computers can, some have dual-core, some have multi-core.

Extracting portions of the consciousness of multiple people and uploading them to the same computer would truly create "collective intelligence."

The volunteers responded enthusiastically. They came from different countries and ethnicities, including men, women, and children, forming a representative collection of human wisdom.

The data fed to the large model included scientific, artistic, and the experiences and reactions of different people in different situations. At the suggestion of Daphne and Eileen, two special projects were also included in the data.

One is Mandy's "Civilization Fossil" pristine conservation project, which focuses on the original ecology of civilization fossils in major cradles of civilization around the world;
Another is the "My Tree" public welfare inheritance program established by Bharat with the help of the Prince of Sands and the Andeke Foundation.

"Collective intelligence" is truly extraordinary. After its successful operation in the laboratory, its first suggestion was: to sing all the way to the distance.

So, the engineers installed a radio signal broadcasting system on the large ship, playing songs selected by online voting during the long voyage, so that humanity's call would echo throughout the entire solar system.

What music and songs will the Taisen probe play in space?
Of course, there's the oratorio *The Creation*, as well as *Homecoming*, *Ode to Joy*, *Speak Love Softly*, *From the New World*, *The Joy of Love*, and *The Sorrow of Love*. A song recommended by Michael also received a high number of votes.

Michael gazed at the towering launch tower and said with a touch of emotion, "When I first heard about Nikola Tesla's theory of faster-than-light waves, I wanted to use it to restart Mars and create a second Earth."

Michael sighed: "Unfortunately, restarting the Mars program is not feasible. Now we can only search for the distant Planet X and pin our hopes on ten thousand years from now."

Daphne comforted Michael, saying, "Although you failed to build the superluminal power station on Mars, your Mars city plan has already begun. In a few years, the first immigrants will move into your Mars capsule."

In 2024, Michael proposed his Mars City plan, which aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars within twenty years and begin Martian survival.

Of course, the plan uses conventional energy sources, not Nikola Tesla's light waves.

In recent years, major spacefaring nations, including China, have signed the Convention on the Safety of the Development and Utilization of Ultra-Light Waves.

The convention stipulates that for the next fifty years, during which time the nature of superluminal waves will not be fully understood, the construction of any permanent facilities based on superluminal waves is prohibited within 100 AU of the solar system, and experiments for scientific research purposes must undergo risk assessment by the Joint Committee.

Michael looked away and murmured, "Our team has put in so much effort and is full of hope. If Planet X doesn't even exist, then all our hard work will have been for nothing."

Daphne laughed and said, "The energy source definitely exists. If it's not a planet, then maybe it's an artificial X-shaped superluminal power station."

Daphne wondered, "Man-made? Could it be related to the timing of the Martian explosion? If there really were humans 6500 million years ago, should we call them our ancestors or our predecessors?"
If there were a beautiful girl there, what would she call me? Granddaughter? Or sister? Daphne wondered, her imagination running wild.

"Michael, do you believe in gods? Or do we have past lives? If so, what hopes and expectations do they have for us?"

Michael recommended the song "To Hope" to be played on the ship, and he shared Beethoven's story with Daphne.

Following the French Revolution, Napoleon swept across Europe under the banner of equality and liberty. Deeply inspired, Beethoven composed his "Eroica" Symphony in 1803, completing it in the spring of 1804. In May of the same year, Napoleon declared himself Emperor, thoroughly enraging Beethoven.

Beethoven tore off the inscription "Dedicated to Bonaparte" from the title page of the symphony and changed it to "Eroica Symphony - In Memory of a Great Man".

Also in that year, Beethoven's hearing deteriorated rapidly, and he was physically and mentally exhausted; one can imagine how desperate he must have felt. However, Beethoven was not defeated by despair and composed Opus 32 – "To Hope".

In 1815, Napoleon's Hundred Days of Restoration failed, and he was once again exiled to a deserted island.

Beethoven witnessed the rise of heroes and the fall of tyrants. After ten years, Beethoven himself had become almost completely deaf.

How painful and despairing it must be for a musician to be deaf.

The resilient Beethoven rearranged his Op. 32 from ten years earlier, revising it into Op. 94, still titled "To Hope".

The difference is that Beethoven added a new paragraph at the beginning of the original long lyrics, which reads as follows:
Are there gods? Did he ever manage to become human again as he wished?
Tears of expectation promise that there are traces to follow.

In any world, before the judgment of fate,

Has the mystery of this mysterious energy been solved?

He gives humanity hope, yet he asks nothing!

Daphne was immersed in Beethoven's story. She thought of the explosion of Mars, the extinction of dinosaurs, and the strange brainwave signals on Psyche. Are there really gods on Psyche?
Daphne prayed in her heart that 18000 years from now, Michael and she would be able to find Planet X and make it a backup for Earth. Michael said that during this period, humans would launch spaceships one after another to complete this feat in relay.

It was late at night, and little Vito was fast asleep. The two put on their coats and drove toward the launch site.

Michael looked grave, and Daphne comforted him, saying, "Even if Planet X doesn't exist, and we can't make contact with our past lives, at least we can keep humanity's second calling card running through the entire solar system. That calling card is our shared 'family tree'!"

Michael's design for the second business card that humanity sent into space uses a new type of hard drive made of silicon dioxide, also known as crystal, with trace amounts of metallic elements added to make it colorful.

Thanks to the use of laser engraving technology, crystal hard drives can no longer be thin sheets, but can be shaped like Mayan pyramids with multiple facets.

硬盘分为9层4个面8个部分，每个部分有18980个立体格栅，共有23037126840个存储单元。

This figure of over 230 billion also represents the number of days, which is exactly an integer multiple of the conjunction cycle of the five major planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) aligning in a straight line to form the astronomical spectacle of a planetary alignment.

The number of storage units is exactly a simple calculation of the Mayan Long Count calendar: one Attodun (230.4 billion days) minus one Pikdun (2880000 days) plus one Kadun (7200 days) minus one Dun (360 days).

按照玛雅长纪历记作：(19.19.19.0.0.19.0.0)，如果把19记作20进位制的-1，用T表示，则记作：(1.0.0.T.0.1.T.0.0)。

It is a crystal information pyramid, a hard drive, and a business card. It is called VESSEL, a vessel for human soul and belief, and a crystallization of wisdom and emotion.

Michael explained why he inscribed information about human civilization onto a hard drive shaped like a Mayan pyramid made of crystal: "Human civilization is a complex multifaceted entity, radiating a colorful light. At the same time, it is transparent and orderly, all originating from a pure, flawless, and sparkling glass heart formed by the intertwining and condensation of wisdom and fragile emotions."

Daphne stepped out of the car, the cool sea breeze ruffling her long hair. Michael rushed over and embraced his beloved woman tightly, making Daphne feel incredibly warm.

The VESSEL, carrying hope, took off and flew towards Orion.

Daphne cried out in her heart, "People from countless ages ago, could I have been fortunate enough to meet you?"

You entrust your hopes to the stars and the sea for eternity.
I long for spring when the flowers bloom, and I will fly to poetry and distant places!
Let us move forward together with a shared ideal!

A faint discomfort in her skull pulled Daphne's thoughts back to a few years ago when she and Michael extracted parts of their consciousness to merge. Each of them had a small hole made in their skulls, and the process of uploading their consciousness was indeed a little uncomfortable.

When the electrodes were inserted into Daphne's brain, under the influence of anesthesia, she felt no pain at all, only a feeling of floating in the air, as if she had entered a dream.

Daphne felt her body immersed in an invisible and inaudible net of extremely long wavelengths and extremely high frequencies, where energy accumulated, the Martian shattered, and the fragments formed the asteroid belt.

A massive fireball crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula, sending up a cloud of yellow smoke, killing dinosaurs, causing tectonic plate shifts, and uplifting the Earth's crust.

After the sea receded, a thin layer of white powder was left beneath the vast earth—the shells left behind by dead mollusks.

Seashells were scattered all over the ground. Daphne saw Grandma Vanita flip over a card, the back of which had a picture of a leaf shaped like a seashell.

What Grandma didn't know was that shell-shaped leaves represented the number "0" in the Mayan counting system!
What Grandma knew was: "It's begun! My child."

A voice told Daphne that this layer of chalk marks the beginning of a new era, a geological period from 6500 million years ago until today called:

New generation!
Daphne felt her body sink into a deeper space, and she even blurred her appearance and name. What's my name? A figure appeared: "My name is Rosanna," and another figure appeared: "My name is Maria."

Until a name I had heard before appeared: "My name is Li Xiaoxuan."

Daphne wondered how she had become Li Xiaoxuan; she floated in mid-air, listening to Celine Dion sing at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics:
"If the sky above our heads were to collapse, if the earth beneath our feet were to sink..."

Is that Michael next to him? Or does he look like Li Xiaoxuan's boyfriend, the boy in white?

As the song ended, fireworks burst forth, and the stars shone brightly in the deep sky.

The young man in white recited a Chinese poem aloud:
"A Song of Love" (from the poem "Nian Nu Jiao")

The Martian lava was blazing, the shell cracked, and a horrifying explosion occurred in space.

Omnidirectional rope waves drive tectonic plates, causing flat land to shift and change its appearance.

No place to call home, no family to keep me company, only the warmth of a loving embrace.

The world has been turned upside down, and the hope is that it will be rebuilt in a generation.

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Consciousness is etched into the spirit, hair and skin melt like snow, and the body is transformed into algae.

Even if there is no return, the dark realm remains, a way of balancing the universe.

They came in succession, breaking through the walls of time, awakening a thousand years of awakening.

The high frequencies and rhythms, along with the celestial music, resound together.

Michael Max looked up at the deep night sky and seemed to see the VESSEL spaceship flying toward Orion, where three stars were aligned at its waist, trailing a "rope" 18 kilometers long.

Michael pulled out the thin rope that the African elder from Lake Victoria had given him from his pocket. It was long, like a long river recording time.

Under Daphne's loving and hopeful gaze, Michael resolutely tied a new knot in the long rope.

The spaceship, the Great Ship, ascended into space, its radio signal broadcasting a children's choir that Daphne had recommended and which had received the most votes:

Riding on the wings of song,

My dear, come with me.

Along the distant corridor,
Go to that most beautiful place.

There is a garden full of red flowers.

In the silence, bathed in starlight.

The flowers are waiting.
My sister's new clothes.

The birds called out amidst laughter.

The hometown in the song.

Rose whispered her opinion.
The story you told was like a fairy tale.

People honked their horns in response.

Noisy deer and antelopes.

In the distance, amidst the surging waves,

Who is singing?
We fell asleep in each other's arms.

The fragrance of the tree shade as a pillow.

Savor love and eternity.
Hope blossoms in my dreams.

As the VESSEL spaceship passed by Psyche, the planet emitted long waves. A comet flew from the direction of Orion, its body covered in snow, its long tail shimmering brilliantly in the soft, blue-velvet night sky.

The radio waves of the song, the swirling and dancing of the comet's tail, and the plaintive tremors of Psyche resonated harmoniously with the unseen and inaudible superluminal waves, as if celebrating this encounter across time and space. The deep roar echoed for a long time against the backdrop of the vast and boundless sky.

Is this the end?

No! Geologists tell us:
The new generation has already begun, and the new generation will continue!
Believe in love, and give hope!
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The poem composed of collected verses at the end of the chapter:
Xue Ni Wu You Pu Ming Hong, Ming, Gao Jingming

The artistry of nature is preserved in seal carving. (Song Dynasty, Yao Mian)

The family tradition, passed down for a thousand years, should not have been lost. —Fan Zhongyan, Song Dynasty

The ancestral temple and its shrine will flourish for ten thousand years. (Ming Dynasty, Quan Jin)

The transformed man suddenly recalled his past life; Qing, Hong Liangji

Diverse opinions are hard to reconcile; only after a long period of time can a consensus be reached. — Lin Xiyi, Song Dynasty

Today, the descendants of Sun Zhi are known far and wide. (Qing Dynasty, Huang Qingtai)

A young child can keep the stove glowing red! (Song Dynasty, Lu You)
(End of this chapter)