Chapter 520 This Life
This world doesn't look up at the stars.
After more than ten minutes of searching, Su Xia confirmed this fact.
He searched the entire Internet but couldn't find any information about the game, not even the information about the game company.
Everything about this game is like it never existed.
"Is this a dream?"
Su Xia sat in front of the computer, holding the mouse, and pondered for a long time.
But most dreams are vague and ethereal, and not real at all.
"Or is looking up at the stars just a dream, as they say?"
Su Xia put down the mouse, slowly lay back on the bed, feeling the familiar soft mattress.
Familiar yet strange, this is how he feels now.
He still remembered what happened before that. It wasn't hitting his head while playing basketball, but touching that strange machine.
According to the Lord of Dragon City, as long as Su Xia touches the machine, some of the doubts in his mind will be resolved.
But now, his old doubts have not been resolved, and new doubts have arisen.
"There must be something wrong between this world and me!"
After a while, Su Xia suddenly stood up from the bed. He would not sit there and wait for death. He wanted to find out the truth!
He turned off the computer, put it into his schoolbag, left the dormitory, and went straight to the school library!
For a period of time afterwards, Su Xia stayed in the library, reading books on "aerospace engineering", "materials science", "aircraft design research" and other subjects from morning to night. He would go out just after six o'clock every day and would not return to the dormitory until the library closed at ten thirty in the evening.
As for information technology, his major, Su Xia also did not fall behind.
Several roommates were surprised because the Su Xia they knew before was not like this.
As the mainstay of the school basketball team, Su Xia used to be either on the basketball court or in the gymnasium. Except for the two weeks before the end of the semester, she would never go to the library every day.
But now Su Xia has quit the basketball team and clubs and focused on academics.
At the end of the semester, Su Xia got the first place in the department, and his scores in all subjects were far higher than the second place.
During the summer vacation, he began to browse various journal articles on aerospace engineering at home and abroad, and compared them with the knowledge in his mind.
He learned a lot about aerospace in the game world, most of which did not exist in this world.
Comparing the knowledge from the two worlds gave Su Xia a lot of insights.
"This knowledge seems to be interlinked. For example, this aerospace engine material should also be able to be made in this world..."
Before school started, he attended an international forum on the aerospace industry held in the capital as a bilingual volunteer, where he met many experts and scholars in the industry.
He performed outstandingly and eloquently at this international forum, and was able to discuss very professional topics with many scholars, attracting a lot of attention.
After the exchange forum ended, he was called over by an old professor from Capital University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The old professor asked him about his future intentions for postgraduate study.
The two talked for a long time. The old professor kept looking at Su Xia. He became more and more satisfied. Finally, he exchanged contact information with Su Xia.
After school started, Su Xia suddenly received a notice from the school stating that he could freely use all the school laboratories without time restrictions.
"The lab is open... the old professor should help."
Su Xia understood that she made the right decision to attend that international forum.
So, in the days that followed, in addition to the library, Su Xia had another place she often went to.
Time flies.
Two years passed.
During this period, Su Xia often communicated with the old professor, and the two became close friends regardless of age difference.
In his senior year, in the school laboratory, Su Xia successfully produced a type of aerospace engine material that he remembered.
“Finally succeeded!”
He recorded the experimental process in full, then packed up all the materials and related documents and sent them to the old professor far away in the capital.
Not long after, the old professor called, and the voice on the other end of the line was filled with joy and shock.
A month later, Su Xia received an admission notice from Capital University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Yes, he doesn't need to take the exam and can be admitted without examination.
Graduation year has arrived in a hurry.
The head of the department, Yu Wen Shuxue, passed the postgraduate entrance examination and continued his postgraduate studies in the same school, while Li Defu and others entered the society and began to accept the beatings of the society.
"Old Su, you are really capable!"
"Come on, you must get better and better in the future!"
"Lao Su, that girl named Wang Xiaofan has been pursuing you for several years, why don't you wake up?"
"In the days ahead, the brothers will no longer be here, so don't get sick again. The world where you look up at the stars doesn't exist..."
On the day of departure, the brothers raised their glasses and got drunk, as if they wanted to drink the remaining years of their youth into their stomachs.
After the farewell dinner, everyone went their separate ways.
Su Xia boarded the train to the capital alone. He looked at the scenery outside the window, put on his headphones, and slowly closed his eyes.
In recent years, he often wondered whether he would return to his old days after waking up from a sleep.
However, that did not happen.
His graduate student days were special and different from those of others.
The old professor was his mentor, but he did not assign him any projects. Instead, he let him do whatever he wanted, and the entire school's resources were open to him.
The resources of Capital University of Aeronautics and Astronautics are much better than those of Jincheng Institute of Technology where Su Xia studied during college. They are completely on a different level.
Three years passed in a flash.
Su Xia presented more than ten different research results, each of which shocked countless people.
The year he graduated, the old professor took him to a very secret research base and told him that from then on he was a member of a secret project and that his food, clothing, housing and transportation would all be provided by the state.
After that, Su Xia successfully completed his doctorate studies, but he was rarely in school and was basically in the research base.
Two years later, he was in a car accident.
The accident was so serious that it nearly cost him his life.
In the hospital, the old professor told Su Xia: "The security personnel assigned to you failed in their duties. This time is very dangerous, but don't worry, there will be more people to protect you in the future."
"I actually have security?"
Only then did Su Xia realize that someone had been secretly protecting him three years ago when he was still a second-year graduate student.
The years that followed were relatively peaceful, and there were no more life-threatening incidents such as car accidents.
He constantly transferred the knowledge he learned from the game from his mind and reproduced it in this world, making great contributions to the country's aerospace engineering.
When he was twenty-eight years old, the old professor fell ill.
In the same year, the manned lunar landing project was successful and the whole country celebrated.
Listening to the joyful cheers, the old professor died with a smile on his face on the hospital bed.
A year later, Su Xia joined the space agency.
Six years later, at the age of thirty-five, he became the chief designer of aerospace projects, the youngest chief designer to date.
In the past years, the names people around him called him kept changing, from "Xiao Su" to "Teacher Su", and then to "Director Su", "Professor Su", "Teacher Su"...
"Master Su, can we really usher in the interstellar era?" a young researcher asked, with a look of yearning and longing for the future on his face.
"Yes, I can!"
At the summary meeting of his first year as chief designer, Su Xia spoke words of affirmation to everyone.
In the autumn of the following year, Su Xia drove to Suzhou to attend the funeral of an old friend.
Li Defu is dead.
After graduation, his life was uneventful.
Like many people, he works a 996 office worker, has few friends at work, and goes back to his rental house to play games after get off work. His life is monotonous, he keeps to himself every day, and he has never even been in a relationship.
He died saving people.
On his way home from get off work that day, he saw two children fallen into the water.
He had lived an ordinary life, but somehow he suddenly found the courage, dropped his backpack and jumped into the water.
He tried his best to lift the two children to the shore, but he was swept away by the current and his body was found more than ten kilometers downstream.
Several other people from the dormitory also came to the funeral.
"Well, Defu had his fortune told before, and the fortune teller said he would live to be a hundred years old."
Yu Wen Shuxue stood in front of the tombstone and sighed. He was already middle-aged and had more white hair and looked much thinner.
The others were silent for a long time.
This was the first time since graduation that the six people in the dormitory gathered together as a whole, five on the ground and one underground.
The autumn wind blows, the leaves fall, and the wind adds a bit of bleakness.
Two years later, when Su Xia was 37 years old, a manned spacecraft flew out of the solar system for the first time and began exploring the Oort Cloud.
Three years later, on Su Xia’s 40th birthday, she heard good news.
"Master Su, we finally found the 'space-time tube' you mentioned!" There was jubilation in the research base and everyone was cheering.
The space-time tube is a concept proposed by Su Xia in the first year he came here. Similar to a wormhole, it can jump in the starry sky and reach directly from one place to another.
Many scientists have proposed similar concepts in the past, but they only existed at the conceptual level and have not been confirmed.
And now, it has finally been confirmed!
A year later, a spacecraft that could travel through the space-time tube was built, and the first group of travelers set off, passing through the space-time tube to explore the more distant starry sky.
After this, the interstellar exploration project ushered in a golden decade of development.
Life planets were discovered one after another, jump points were marked one after another, and a large amount of star resources were transported back to Earth, many of which were resources that Su Xia was familiar with in the game world.
Interstellar exploration has accelerated the development of science and technology. After ten years of technological explosion, the Earth has finally entered the interstellar age.
During this period, Earth civilization came into contact with more than thirty different interstellar civilizations.
Through communication, Earth civilization obtained more than thirty different star maps and combined them together.
Ten years of development also allowed the Earth's star fleet to leave the Milky Way for the first time and begin exploring unknown galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds, the Doradus Galaxy, and the Sombrero Galaxy.
At the same time, the explosion of resources has also promoted the improvement of social welfare.
Under Su Xia's leadership, new generations of robots have come out, replacing heavy and tiring work, and the burden on ordinary people has become lighter and lighter.
When he was sixty years old, the first interstellar crisis broke out. The Earth fleet encountered an extremely cruel interstellar colonial civilization, and a war broke out between the two sides.
To respond to the crisis, countries around the world have urgently formed a human civilization union.
Outside the organization's headquarters building, a statue was erected, which was of Su Xia.
"Sixty years old..."
Looking at his own statue, Su Xia had a calm expression.
Most people, at his age, have already started enjoying their grandchildren and living out their days in peace.
But he just wanted to find the truth.
Five years later, people on Earth saw the war.
In fact, the war ended five years ago with the complete victory of the Earth fleet.
It’s just that the star region where the war broke out is five light-years away from the earth, so it is only now being observed by most people.
In the same year, it was another autumn, the season when grass withered and leaves fell.
Su Xia returned to Jincheng and attended the funeral of another old friend.
Yuwen Shu learned to death.
He died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage while still playing with his grandson before his death.
He had a perfect life. He was a deputy mayor in his career, had a loving wife, a happy family, and many children and grandchildren. He died with a smile on his face and had no regrets.
Two years later, the brothers He Lie and He Ju fell into the water while fishing in a boat and both died.
The two brothers have never been separated. Their lives and careers are very ordinary, but they are content with being ordinary and do not have too many pursuits. They began to like fishing in middle age and eventually died from fishing.
Time flies, and another three years have passed.
When Su Xia was 70 years old, she said goodbye to her last roommate, Li Sihua.
Li Sihua lived a good life. He started his own business a few years after graduation and took off immediately when he caught the trend. At the age of 33, he sold his startup company for a nine-figure sum and then began to travel around the world.
He has been to more countries than Su Xia has been to cities.
Finally, at the age of seventy, he still wanted to see the starry sky.
But he was too old, and the staff of the interstellar tourism project did not recommend him to do so.
"This is the starry sky explored by my brother. How can I not go and take a look?" Li Sihua is old but young at heart. He began to exercise and move around like a young man, determined to take a tour of the starry sky.
Unfortunately, the intense exercise took a toll on his body.
He died in the gym.
This autumn.
Su Xia attended his funeral.
Old friends left one by one, and all of Su Xia's good friends from his youth had passed away, leaving him alone.
His hair was now gray, and his body was no longer as straight as when he was young, and he looked a little hunched.
A few years later, when he was seventy-five years old, interstellar exploration achieved a major breakthrough when the Earth fleet encountered a fleet from an interstellar empire that called itself the Seventh Empire.
Through friendly exchanges, the Earth obtained an extremely large and detailed star map.
On the star map , there are the words [Verne Star Region].
In Su Xia’s memory, the blue star in the game is exactly in this star field!
After that, under Su Xia's instructions, Earth civilization began to explore this star region with all its might.
Time flies, more than ten years have passed.
When Su Xia was 90 years old, good news came.
"Teacher Su, we have found the planet you mentioned!" A young researcher ran into the office excitedly and presented the latest exploration results to Su Xia.
"Found it?"
The old Su Xia slowly raised his head, looking tired and his voice a little hoarse.
He stretched out his skinny hand, took the exploration material, opened it, and saw the familiar planet with his cloudy eyes.
Three continents, four oceans, two polar regions...
It is Blue Star without a doubt.
After that, he made a decision that shocked everyone - he was going to go to that planet in person!
"Master Su, you are already ninety years old, you can't take any risks!"
Many people are advising.
Those who engage in interstellar exploration are basically young people in good health.
Su Xia is already 90 years old. He has contributed so much in his life and has long been a national treasure. No one wants anything to happen to him.
Su Xia was very stubborn. She suppressed all opposition and insisted on going to that planet.
In the end, the people below had no choice but to start building a hibernation chamber tailor-made for him.
Two years later, under the watchful eyes and company of countless people, the 92-year-old Su Xia, with an old step, walked along the metal ladder, step by step, towards the hatch of an interstellar exploration ship.
Before entering the cabin, he turned and looked back.
Once I leave, I probably won’t be able to come back.
Below, countless people waved goodbye to him with red eyes and tears.
"Master Su, take care on your journey!"
