The first volume sets sail Chapter 10: Emergency Awakening from a Thousand Years of Dormancy
In an ancient courtyard in Yanjing City, Lin Xu sat on a lounge chair in the middle of the yard, watching the clouds rolling in the sky and listening to the old record playing on the phonograph not far away.
The sun hangs in the center of the sky, and its rays of light make me feel warm on my body, just as it did millions of years ago when the earth was still revolving around the sun.
However , the reality is that the sun in the sky is just a simulation of the sun by the nuclear fusion simulator in the biodome.
Most of the cities in the world have been frozen in ice, and only a few cities have been preserved by Lin Xu as urban ecosystems.
Yanjing City is one of them.
Miss Qiu, dressed in a maid outfit with black stockings and an absolute domain under her short skirt, came slowly, holding a cup of pudding milk tea in her hand and placed it on the small table next to Lin Xu.
On the table, you can also see fruits such as grapes and bananas, as well as three perfect diamond-shaped objects the size of bottle caps. Lin Xu has been studying them, although there has been no progress.
But he always felt that this thing was not simple, so he did not directly give it to Taiyin, Yinghuo, Qiming and others to do any destructive experiments.
"Thank you." Lin Xu said casually, picked up the pudding milk tea with a straw and prepared to drink it.
Compared to bubble tea, he still prefers pudding.
However, before he put the straw into his mouth, he froze.
"You're wearing a maid outfit?" Lin Xu asked in surprise.
"Master, don't you like it?"
"I like it very much."
"As long as the master likes it." Miss Qiu said with a twitch of her mouth.
Lin Xu knew that she was trying to smile, but unfortunately she didn't do it very well.
"Master, preparations for hibernation have been made." While Lin Xu was drinking milk tea, Miss Qiu talked about business.
"A thousand years. When I wake up again, it will be a thousand years later." Lin Xu sighed .
Then he asked, "By the way, where are we flying to now?"
"Just past Neptune."
"We're about to leave the solar system!" Lin Xu sighed again.
He finished the milk tea in his hand and stood up.
"Let's go, and take one last look at the sun."
Outside the city of Yanjing, above the frozen earth, a huge planetary engine sprayed blue light beams into the sky. Below the planetary engine was the winding Great Wall and mountains.
Lin Xu, wearing a power armor, stood on a section of the Great Wall, looking up at the sky, at the sun which had shrunk to the size of a ping-pong ball.
Miss Qiu was accompanying him behind him.
Until Lin Xu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Go back. When you wake up, you will be in the Proxima Galaxy."
The distance between the solar system and the Proxima Centauri system is 4.3 light years.
Ten thousand years ago, the fleet sailed this distance for five hundred years.
Today, the entire Earth is heading towards the Proxima Centauri system, so the speed naturally cannot be as fast as that of a long-distance fleet.
It will take a full thousand years.
But considering that it is a planet, this speed is quite fast.
Anyway, for Lin Xu, no matter how long it was, it was just a matter of sleeping, so he didn't think a thousand years was unacceptable.
Lin Xu still remembers that there was an old song called "A Thousand Years Later". Although it has been ten thousand years since he died, he still feels deeply touched when thinking about another thousand years later .
However, what Lin Xu did not expect was that when he woke up from the hibernation chamber again, it was not a thousand years later, but nine hundred years later.
And he was awakened because of an emergency.
"Is it already a thousand years later?" Lin Xu felt as if he had just closed his eyes and then was woken up. He looked at Miss Qiu outside the hibernation chamber and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Master. Only 900 years have passed. It is now the 10680th year of the Sailing Calendar. You were awakened urgently."
"Emergency wake-up? What happened?" Lin Xu was shocked and asked quickly.
"Master, let me explain it to you next." Yinghuo's voice sounded.
"We discovered an autonomous mechanical aggregate. It seems that it was released by humans for reconnaissance when they stopped at the Proxima Galaxy. Later, when humans left the Proxima Galaxy and resumed their voyage, this autonomous machine was permanently in standby mode. It should have been on standby for ten thousand years now."
"If we can restart this autonomous machine, the database inside it will be of great help to us in understanding what humans did in the Proxima Centauri galaxy ten thousand years ago."
"Then just start it. Is there any problem with asking me to get up?" Lin Xu asked puzzledly.
"This requires your authorization."
After coming out of the hibernation chamber and returning to his courtyard house in Yanjing, Lin Xu finally understood what was going on after hearing Yinghuo's explanation.
As advanced artificial intelligence quantum computers, this kind of solitary autonomous machines can naturally be activated at any time.
However, Lin Xu's authorization is needed to take over the control program of the autonomous machine.
Only humans can make decisions about the disposal of human property.
After learning all this, Lin Xu immediately authorized Yinghuo.
So not long after, Yinghuo completed the takeover of the lone autonomous machine.
Lin Xu even sat on a recliner in the yard and watched the live broadcast.
The holographic image projected into the courtyard clearly showed that in the pitch-black universe and starry sky, a spherical entity the size of an aircraft carrier suddenly began to vibrate in a regular rhythm.
The spherical entity disintegrated into countless autonomous machines of varying sizes, which then self-assembled into a huge cone.
However, there are no weapons on the surface of this cone, but the engine jet behind the cone is even larger.
Accompanied by an unusually thick beam of light, this autonomous mechanical aggregate chased after the fast-moving Earth.
At this time, the Earth, after 150 years of acceleration and 700 years of gliding, has entered a deceleration phase lasting 150 years.
But the speed is still very fast, there is no way to stop it, and it is naturally impossible to wait for it, so I can only let it catch up on its own.
Lin Xu watched the entire live broadcast. In order to let him see more clearly, the artificial sun in the sky was even adjusted to a dim state, turning it into an artificial moon.
Only after Lin Xu finished reading did it return to the sun mode and illuminate the earth again.
Now that he was awake, Lin Xu planned to continue sleeping for a few days.
So a few days later, he got the brief information about the Proxima Centauri system that Yinghuo had compiled from the database of the autonomous machine.
Although that was the situation ten thousand years ago.
Looking at one of the messages, Lin Xu had a strange expression on his face.
"Before humans left ten thousand years ago, they left some androids at the curvature engine factory in the Proxima galaxy to look after the factory?"
"Are these bionic people capable of reproduction?" Lin Xu asked.
"It's not shown in the information." Yinghuo replied.
