Chapter 688: Divine Decline
Galaxy 382 years.
More than two hundred and seventy Earth years have passed since artificial Earth No. 34 left the Giant Star Colony Branch.
In order to reduce the rate of resource consumption during the voyage, the Red Heart Group, which was reorganized from the Red Heart Legion, adopts a shift system. Normally, only 10% of the members are on duty, and the remaining members all enter the absolute zero hibernation chamber.
At this time, the average life expectancy of the new humans has reached about 1258 years. If combined with absolute zero degree cryogenic hibernation technology, the survival time can be further extended.
Gao Long, who had just participated in the 27th Science and Culture Exchange Conference (held every 10 years), looked a little unhappy at this moment.
As soon as he exited the virtual world, he immediately summoned the core scientific researchers of the Chixin Group's scientific division.
As one of the leaders of the scientific division of Chixin Group, Gao Long was responsible for leading the delegation to five exchange conferences, but this exchange conference shocked him greatly and also brought some bad news.
After nearly three hundred years of external exploration by the new humans.
At present, the new human civilization controls a considerable number of planetary systems.
Including the Proxima Centauri system (including Alpha Centauri AB) 4.2 light-years away from the solar system, the Barnard Galaxy 5.9 light-years away, and the Luyten 726-8AB star 8.7 light-years away, and 32 other stars.
Among a series of planetary systems occupied by humans, the farthest planetary system from the origin of human civilization, the solar system, is the Luyten Galaxy, 12.4 light-years away.
The reason why we can reach these planetary systems is, on the one hand, because the overall technology of human civilization is constantly improving.
For example, four-neutron materials and six-neutron material series have been synthesized one after another, and eight-neutron materials have now been researched.
The emergence of these neutron materials has brought about rapid progress in energy, shield and thruster technologies.
Currently, human technology can increase the safe travel speed of spacecraft to 18.6% of the speed of light.
Although a mothership of the level of Artificial Earth certainly has no way to increase its speed to 18.6% of the speed of light, it allows the Red Heart Group to acquire a colony in advance.
The Red Heart Group modified spaceships and space battleships, and then sent these spaceships to their destination, the Rakai 9352 galaxy, in advance.
The Lakai 9352 galaxy is 10.7 light-years away from the solar system and about 8.6 light-years away from the giant star nebula.
According to the previous navigation speed of artificial Earth No. 34 (1.8% of the speed of light), it will take about 480 Earth years.
However, using an improved version of the spacecraft, it would only take about 46 years to reach the Rakai 9352 system.
The Rakai 9352 system is a single main sequence star system, its stars are red dwarfs, and its resources are decent.
The branches of human civilization that have spread around the solar system have found traces of life in almost every galaxy.
However, among the 32 star planetary systems with civilizations, except for the solar system and the giant star nebula, only two systems have intelligent life, and they are all rookies in the zero-level civilization.
If the six-clawed people had not chosen the wrong opponent, they probably wouldn't have ended up being wiped out.
In the past hundred years or so, the various sub-civilizations with large numbers of colonies have begun to catch up with the technological level of the parent solar system company little by little, and are no longer solely dependent on technological transfusions from the parent company.
It is precisely because of this that, at this Science and Culture Exchange Conference, the Sirius Group from the Sirius star system inadvertently researched some mysteries about the soul.
This achievement caused a huge stir.
It immediately shook the entire scientific community of human civilization.
After all, the development of human civilization over the past three hundred years has not been smooth sailing.
One of the most troubling issues is lifespan.
You know, humans now claim that their average life expectancy can reach over a thousand years, but the first generation founders of human civilization lived only over four hundred years at most.
The so-called life expectancy is nothing more than an assessment of the body.
Even in the 236th year of Xinghe, Li Qingye led the scientific research team to complete the cosmicization of human genes and reshaped human genes, allowing the new cosmic humans and natural humans to truly form reproductive isolation.
This technology has also increased the average life expectancy of new humans to thousands of years.
But just as everyone was immersed in this great achievement, a crisis was quietly brewing.
It was not until the 331st year of Xinghe that the hidden crisis finally began to spread.
The terrible disease "neurasthenia syndrome" appeared for the first time this year. The characteristic of this disease is that the body is very healthy and there is nothing abnormal, but the person's spirit will continue to weaken, and then there will be confusion and loss of memory, and finally the person will become a living dead.
Any new human being over 360 to 370 years old will develop neurasthenia syndrome.
At present, there is no cure for this disease. The situation of each sub-civilization is slightly better, after all, there are not so many elderly people. However, the problem is very serious on the side of the solar system parent company.
At this stage, the only conservative treatment option is to send all new humans over 300 years old into absolute zero-degree freezing hibernation chambers.
A number of company veterans, including Li Qingye, have now entered a long-term dormant state.
However, when Gao Long returned from the exchange conference this time, he heard some bad news. Cryogenic hibernation can only slow down the decay of the soul, but it can only delay it by three times at most.
Take Li Qingye as an example. He had frozen himself for a long time due to problems with genetic modification, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Now his soul lifespan is about 124 years.
Combined with the cryogenic hibernation at absolute zero, if he were to remain in cryogenic hibernation, he could last up to 372 years.
If human civilization , Li Qingye will die.
Gao Long, as the second generation new human of the Chixin Group , is 233 years old and is actually approaching the deadline of soul decay.
Before, he also wanted to delay time to thousands of years later by using the absolute zero degree freezing hibernation chamber.
Thinking about it now, he was too optimistic.
He suppressed his inner helplessness and reluctance, and looked at everyone present: "Everyone! I believe you already know about this exchange conference."
These members of the scientific division of the Chixin Group are all top scientists. They also participated in this exchange conference and naturally knew what Gao Long meant.
"Minister! We don't have much time left. We need to come up with a treatment plan in a short period of time. In one word! Difficult!" A bald scientist shook his head.
"Perhaps this is the universe's limitation on life!"
It was obvious that the scientists present had no hope.
Like Li Qingye, they still have plenty of time thanks to long-term frozen hibernation.
But from the information obtained at the exchange conference, they now only know that the soul may be composed of dark matter and dark energy.
Dark matter and dark energy are so mysterious that even after hundreds of years of development of human civilization, we are still only able to understand them in a limited way.
