Interstellar Soldier

Chapter 112 Seeding Life
Even if you are dreaming, you have to be a lucid dream, instead of waking up in a daze and not understanding anything.

After thinking about it, Yang Yi took a deep breath.

"Have you figured it out?" Yang Feng said with a faint smile, "Don't be surprised. Although this is your consciousness space, there is no secret in your thoughts during the exchange of consciousness. In fact, you can make it so quickly. The decision surprised me a bit.”

"Is it strange?"

"No, it's not surprising. You are my grandson, and you are exactly like your father. At the beginning, it only took him half a minute to make a decision."

"Is that what you want to tell me?"

"You're also impatient."

Yang Yi was completely speechless, but he clearly felt that the old man in front of him was very kind, the kind of kindness that only relatives can have.

"Okay, let's get down to business." Yang Feng took a long breath and said, "First of all, we have to start from the first era 1 years ago."

Yang Yi didn't say anything, nor was he surprised.

"After coming to this era, I realized that in the eyes of humans in the third era, the first era 1 years ago was a dark and chaotic era, and human civilization was extremely backward, let alone interstellar travel, even the solar system Didn't make it out. It's true in general, but it's far from it."

"What are the facts?"

"Human civilization in the first era was indeed backward, but not as you know, especially in the later period, a major discovery completely changed human civilization."

"Find?"

Yang Feng nodded, and said: "In the late period of the first era, the development of human beings in the known field has reached the limit. Although the human civilization was extremely prosperous at that time, it not only solved the environmental dilemma of the mother planet, but also left its footprints on the planet. However, limited by basic theories, the development of human civilization has also reached its limit. Compared with the distant distances between star systems calculated in light years, the speed humans can achieve is too slow. Simply put, even for the fastest spacecraft at that time, it would take hundreds of years to fly to the neighboring galaxy, and the normal lifespan of human beings is only over 100 years old. Besides, after reaching the neighboring galaxy, there is no way to slow down."

"In other words, human beings are trapped in the solar system."

"That's right." Yang Yi sighed and said, "Although human civilization is prosperous on the surface, the contradiction between population and resources has already emerged. In my time, that is, around 3000 A.D. in the First Era, the earth authorities released control of space exploration and resource extraction. In addition to technological progress, making space travel no longer difficult, the more important thing is the demand for resources, especially energy. Although after mastering controllable nuclear fusion, energy is difficult However, the explosive population growth and the infinite pursuit of improving the quality of life have made energy consumption even greater. In order to protect the earth's ecological environment, we can only go to other planets to obtain energy. The first to develop is Jupiter, and then Saturn and Neptune, and then the asteroids at the edge of the solar system."

Yang Yi frowned, and looked at Yang Feng incomprehensibly.

"Although there are enough hydrogen elements on Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, which can theoretically consume hundreds of millions of years for human civilization, it is extremely difficult to mine and the cost is high. There are many ice comets in the solar system. Apart from the long distance, mining is difficult. It's much smaller."

"You mean..."

"After the Earth authorities lifted the restrictions, going to the edge of the solar system to search for ice comets and bringing them back to Earth became the most popular profession at that time."

"So you just..."

"Yes, I was one of the first batch of interstellar explorers. At that time, there were many people like me. After obtaining the interstellar exploration qualification certificate issued by the earth authorities, they signed sponsorship agreements with large energy companies, and then took small spacecraft to the edge of the solar system. If you are lucky, even if it takes decades, as long as you find an ice comet, you can get rich overnight. It’s just that the lucky ones are very few, and most of the interstellar explorers never return .”

"What about you?"

"Me?" Yang Feng said with a faint smile, "I am the lucky one among the lucky ones. At that time, I was sponsored by a large energy company, and I took a boat equipped with an ecosystem with my future wife, your grandmother. The small spacecraft left the earth. After five years of long voyage, we came to the Kuiper belt in the outer solar system, which is the edge area where asteroids and comets gather. Although the initial luck was not very good, we wasted nearly ten years Time, but an accidental discovery changed our destiny and the future of human civilization. In addition, this discovery brought me a surprise, an unexpected but extremely precious surprise.”

Yang Feng suddenly showed a happy smile, while Yang Yi was at a loss.

"We found a comet with a huge size. Although it is not the ice comet we were looking for, this discovery can still make us rich overnight, because there are rare metals necessary to build a controllable fusion nuclear reactor on this comet, and The reserves are extremely astonishing. However, this is not the biggest gain."

"what is that?"

Yang Feng chuckled and said, "It's your father, my son."

"what!?"

"After discovering this comet, in order to find out the internal structure of the comet, especially the reserves of rare metals, my grandmother and I landed twice. Soon after, your grandmother became pregnant."

Yang Yi stared at Yang Feng dumbfounded.This is also a harvest! ?

"Interestingly, I hadn't slept with your grandmother before this."

When Yang Feng said this, Yang Yi's eyes widened.

"Don't think about it, there are only two of us on the spaceship, and there is no third person. At that time, your grandmother and I were very puzzled. If it weren't for the unambiguous results of genetic testing, I couldn't believe that your grandmother was pregnant with my child. The question is, how did she conceive this child?"

"Could it be..."

"I said it all, don't get it wrong. There is a complete ecosystem on the spaceship, but there is no equipment for cultivating test-tube babies, and your grandmother and I have no plans to have children. It's not that we don't want children, but in space exploration , getting pregnant is a very troublesome thing. You know, there are only two of us on the spaceship. If your grandmother is pregnant, I have to control the spaceship alone, and there is no delivery equipment on the spaceship.”

"That is how the matter?"

"Why, haven't you thought of it yet?"

Yang Yi was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly understood. "You mean, something to do with that comet?"

Yang Feng nodded, and said: "After ruling out all other possibilities, even if we feel that we cannot believe it, we have to doubt the comet. Afterwards, we conducted a comprehensive scan of the comet and found that the detected rare metals are mainly concentrated In the core of the comet. Before that, we discovered that there is a powerful interference source inside the comet, which makes the nuclear magnetic resonance detection equipment unable to work normally. However, we all believe that it is very likely that the interference caused by the accumulation of rare metals. There is In order to get rid of suspicion, we made several blasting resonances to map the internal structure of the comet by collecting seismic waves. It is just like this that we discovered the secret of this comet.”

"What secret?"

Yang Feng let out a long breath, and after a while, he said: "This is not a comet that formed naturally, and it didn't originate from the solar system."

"You mean..."

"This is a spaceship that has drifted in the universe for millions of years!"

Although he was mentally prepared, Yang Yi was still extremely shocked when Yang Feng said it.

"The rare metal we detected is actually the hull of the spacecraft, and what is covered outside is just the cosmic dust absorbed by the spacecraft when it was drifting in the universe."

"This……"

"With this discovery, we blew up the outer rock formations."

"and then?"

"Although the rare metals that make up this spaceship can make us rich overnight, your grandmother and I believe that the value of the spaceship itself is greater. The key point is that this spaceship does not belong to humans. Due to technical limitations, we cannot control the spaceship. However, through the identification of the rock formations at the bottom, it is enough to confirm that the spaceship has been wandering in the universe for 500 million years. Besides, the rare metals that make up the spaceship are extremely rare, and the reserves in the entire solar system are only a few. Thousand tons, and the mass of this spaceship is more than [-] tons. There is no doubt that this spaceship comes from an extremely developed civilization, and this civilization has already suffered a catastrophe.”

"that's it?"

Yang Feng smiled lightly and said, "Don't provoke me, it's useless."

Yang Yi was speechless, but he didn't say much.

"Actually, this is an unmanned spacecraft. After making a judgment, your grandmother and I made a very bold decision."

"Enter the spaceship for investigation?"

Yang Feng nodded and said: "That's why we found that there were no creatures on this spaceship, and there was no sign of intelligent life, so we concluded that it was an unmanned spaceship. Of course, this is not the key point. On this ship, we found out why your grandmother was pregnant."

"what!?"

"Simply put, this is a spaceship for sowing seeds."

"Sow seeds!?" Yang Yi widened his eyes, looking at Yang Feng in disbelief.

"Sow the seeds of life in the universe."

"This...is this possible?"

"Why is it impossible?" Yang Feng forced a smile and said, "Not only your father, but all of us are from this spaceship."

"You mean, humans were created from this spaceship?"

"It's not creation, it's just spreading. In other words, millions of years ago, this spaceship came to the solar system and spread the seeds of life to the most suitable planet for the reproduction of life, which is the earth. After millions of years After the evolution of human beings, human civilization has been born. Don’t forget, the distant ancestors of human beings, the first apes appeared 300 million years ago, and Homo sapiens appeared 20 years ago.”

At this moment, Yang Yi was shocked besides being shocked.

(End of this chapter)