The first volume sets sail Chapter 7: Passing by Jupiter

The earth is still rotating.

The planetary engines located in the northern hemisphere propel the Earth forward and are not disturbed by the Earth's rotation.

Because the earth rotates from west to east.

At this moment, the earth is like a sphere that is rotating and being pushed forward.

At the same time, the steering engines built around the equator will also be started, causing the Earth to slowly stop its rotation while moving forward.

This is the plan selected by Lin Xu after discussion with Taiyin, Yinghuo and Qiming.

Compared to going through the braking period, this way the progress can be faster.

Moreover, the thrust generated by 100,000 planetary engines is enough to implement such a plan.

Then there's no need to waste time.

But some time still has to be wasted.

Although the thrust of 100,000 planetary engines is powerful, they cannot directly push the Earth out of the solar system and escape the gravitational pull of the Sun.

The Earth still needs to fly around the sun ten times to accelerate.

During these ten circles, each circle will become more and more elliptical and flat, until the tenth circle, when it will completely leave the solar system.

In these ten circles, the time spent on the first few circles will be much shorter than the one year when the Earth once revolved around the sun because of the propulsion of the planetary engine.

But later on, because each circle became more and more elliptical and farther away from the sun, even with the thrust provided by the planetary engine, the time spent on each circle would be longer than the normal year of the Earth's revolution around the sun.

So, with one more and one less, it is estimated to take about ten years to complete these ten circles.

In other words, if nothing unexpected happens, ten years after Lin Xu orders the ignition, the Earth will be able to completely leave the solar system.

The ecological dome in the Qinling Mountains has been launched.

The huge ecological dome confines the air within a radius of ten kilometers to prevent it from escaping.

However, the nuclear fusion artificial sun installed at the highest point of the ecological dome above has not yet been started.

After all, there is still a real sun now, so Lin Xu wants to feel it for a while longer.

Until Miss Qiu came to remind him again that the time was up.

"Master, the hibernation chamber is ready."

"Let's go." Lin Xu said, standing up from the second-floor balcony of the wooden house.

The wooden stairs creaked as I stepped on them and reached the first floor.

Pushing the door open, we walked forward along the winding bamboo path. On one side was the sky full of mist raised by the waterfall, and on the other side was a steep mountain.

After turning a few corners, a seemingly natural cave appeared in Lin Xu's sight.

However, there is a soft light emanating from this cave.

A maglev car slowly drove out of the mountain and stopped beside Lin Xu.

Lin Xu got in the car and started the car. Soon he drove out of a long corridor and arrived at a square-like hall deep inside the mountain.

There are countless rooms and corridors in the hall.

Those corridors lead to various locations throughout the Qinling ecosystem.

Just like the corridor that Lin Xu just came from.

This is the control center of the Qinling ecosystem.

The hovercraft stopped in the center of the square-like hall.

Lin Xu and Miss Qiu got off here, took the elevator in the center of the hall, and went downstairs.

Only then did we arrive at the control room of the control center.

The equipment terminals that control various functions of the Qinling Ecosystem Ecological Dome are all here.

Even in reality, the biodome is controlled by a quantum computer, so there is no need for a control room.

However, according to regulations, a control room and manual control equipment are still required.

Lin Xu has no intention of abolishing this regulation.

But this is not Lin Xu's destination.

Next to the control room, there is a room with a hibernation chamber, which is the reason why Lin Xu came here.

After all, you need to hibernate, so you must be in the safest place possible.

This time, Lin Xu's hibernation period is exactly ten years.

He wants to take one last look at the sun before the Earth completely leaves the solar system.

When Lin Xu seemed to have fallen asleep and woke up again when Miss Qiu greeted him, it was already ten years later.

"Master, the time now is 9780 in the Sailing Calendar. Your ten-year hibernation period has ended."

"It still feels so fast." Lin Xu sighed again.

Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and it didn't feel real at all.

Lin Xu left the control room and returned along the same route, back to the misty waterfall and back to the cabin.

Looking up at the highest point of the ecological dome above, the nuclear fusion artificial sun has been lit.

The artificial sun radiates light and heat just like a real sun, maintaining the ecological cycle of the Qinling ecosystem.

Looking around through the ecological dome, it seems that outside the ecological dome, the Qinling Mountains still look the same, and the sky is still blue with white clouds.

But Lin Xu knew that all this was just the outside world scenery simulated by the ecological dome.

As for the real outside world scenery ten years later, he can only wait and see it in person.

The power armor was activated, and the clothes on Lin Xu's body differentiated into countless nanorobots in the blink of an eye, combining into a close-fitting battle armor.

Plasma flames spurted out from his feet, pushing Lin Xu into the sky .

Soon, Lin Xu arrived at the edge of the ecological dome.

A gap appeared on the light curtain of the ecological dome. Lin Xu quickly passed through the gap , followed closely by Miss Qiu.

The gap closed behind him, but Lin Xu didn't even bother to look back.

He was completely stunned by the scene before him.

Even though he had expected this, Lin Xu still let out a long sigh when it all happened before his eyes.

Ice and snow, endless ice and snow covered the earth.

There are no trees on the familiar Huashan Mountain in the distance, and the famous Changkong Plank Road and other attractions are also frozen by ice and snow.

The entire Qinling Mountains, except for the part enclosed within the Qinling ecosystem, is dead silent.

The sun can be seen here in the northern hemisphere, but the sun that once hung high in the sky, bringing light and heat to mankind, now appears to have shrunk countless times and is only the size of an orange.

It emits a slightly dim light and hangs above the sky.

Lin Xu knew that it was because this place was too far away from the sun.

Compared to the sun that radiates light and heat, another celestial body now appears to be much larger than the sun.

It was a huge star hanging at the other end of the sky, occupying nearly half of the sky.

A huge star with colorful stripes of red, brown, white, etc. on its surface.

"Is that Jupiter?"

"Yes, we are passing by Jupiter," Miss Qiu replied.

"I remember there is a museum on Jupiter?" Lin Xu suddenly thought of it.

He had read that in the information and had always been curious about it.

"Are you going to visit?" Miss Qiu asked.

Lin Xu was stunned for a moment. He never expected that Miss Qiu could actually hear the hidden meaning in his words.

I feel that Miss Qiu is becoming more and more like a real intelligent life.