Urban Sims

Two weeks later.

Feitian arrived at the large space quantum communication relay base station and sent the video packet.

Subsequently, the spacecraft switched to autopilot and all crew members entered the sleep cabin in the sleep room.

The hibernation chamber can keep the human body in a state of minimum energy consumption. At low temperatures, cell activity drops to a minimum, just like animal hibernation. It can minimize energy consumption and reduce damage to the human body.

In fact, the greatest significance of the hibernation warehouse is not to save the nutritional consumption during the hibernation process, but to prevent various physiological and psychological problems that humans will have in a closed environment during the long interstellar journey.

Physiological aging can be overcome with drugs; psychological problems cannot be overcome with drugs.

Common mental illnesses such as autism, claustrophobia, hallucinations, and mania, once they occur in a spacecraft...

Lie flat in the hibernation compartment before starting hibernation.

"Grandpa, I'm going to sleep for 160 years this time. Do you have any problems?" Yun Xinghe asked. The grandpa in his mind has a symbiotic soul relationship with him. If he falls asleep, will something happen to the grandpa?

Like suddenly disappearing or something like that.

"Don't worry, grandpa won't leave. You can have a good rest."

"Hmm~"

Yun Xinghe nodded and pressed the button to activate the hibernation chamber.

"呲呲~" A ball of mist-like liquid sprayed out in front of him. The stun ingredients in it made him fall into a coma. After a while, he lost all consciousness.

…

"Ding~"

"The character has entered deep sleep. Do you want to exit the game?" the system suddenly prompted.

"no!"

This is where the flexibility of The Sims comes in. If you want to break away from the game, there are plenty of options.

In reality, Zhou Ming also happened to have some things to do. These days, he could put Yun Xinghe aside and concentrate on his own affairs.

…

In the vastness of space.

A drifting spaceship is performing unpowered gliding flight.

In the quiet, dark universe, it is like a ghost ship.

"Wow~"

The dormant chamber is open.

A man sat up holding his head.

A splitting headache.

A dream.

A dream that lasted a long time.

The scenes in the dream were as bizarre as a kaleidoscope, but I couldn't remember anything after I woke up.

Even some of the original memories were blurry and chaotic.

After more than ten minutes, he remembered his name - Yun Xinghe.

"Kid, you're awake." A voice came from his head.

"Who are you?" Yun Xinghe was stunned and asked.

"It seems that a lot of your memory has disappeared. There is a memory recovery machine in the medical room. Your memory has been backed up there. Go get your memory back." The voice in the head reminded.

Yun Xinghe nodded and found the medical room. After seeing the memory recovery machine, he put on his helmet and began the journey to retrieve his memory.

With some medication, Yun Xinghe completely returned to normal three days later.

Inside the bridge control room.

Sitting in the captain's seat, he opened the control panel and first checked the status of the spacecraft.

"All systems are functioning normally."

"87% of the energy remains, 65% of the acceleration medium remains, and 95% of the living supplies on board remain."

"Current sailing speed 0.45201C, current total sailing time: 163.33 years."

"Report: A damage was found on the right wing of the Feitian. It is speculated to be caused by the impact of space floating objects. The damage is minor, but it is recommended to repair it immediately."

Yun Xinghe, who was enjoying his lunch beef, was stunned by a problem reported by the spaceship's brain, and asked the brain to focus the camera on the damaged part:

Yun Xinghe saw that on the right wing of the spacecraft, near the wing tip, the thin wing surface had been knocked out with a fist-sized hole.

Although the wing was not penetrated, a drop of cold sweat broke out on the forehead. Fortunately, the wing was hit. If it had hit the bridge control hall...

After lunch, he put on an extravehicular space suit, carried an air pack, brought repair tools, and tied his waist with a long strap. After leaving the cabin, he flew nearly 200 meters before Yun Xinghe arrived at the damaged spacecraft. parts.

A piece of alloy was refilled, and the gap was welded with high-energy laser. With precise operation, it only took 15 minutes to repair the damaged part.

Standing on the surface of the spacecraft and looking up, Yun Xinghe was shocked.

The stars in the sky are bright and wonderful. The original gauze-like Oma Nebula, at close range, looks like a piece of colorful silk, red, blue, purple, orange, white, gray, dyed with various colors. same color.

Meteor shower.

Yun Xinghe also saw a very rare meteor shower. Space meteorites that came from unknown sources entered the Oma Nebula at high speed. They rubbed against the dense gas, generated heat and light, and dragged a long trajectory, even if they were separated from each other. Even at a distance of more than two light-months, it looked extremely clear.

"It's so beautiful."

Yun Xinghe sighed in his heart.

After returning to the spacecraft, a few days later, all the equipment and systems on the ship were checked. After confirming that there were no problems, Yun Xinghe woke up all the sleeping partners.

"The Oma Nebula is coming soon, and the Feitian is about to slow down and pass through the Oma Nebula!"

…

"It hurts. My head hurts."

"Who am I? Where am I?"

"How long have I been dormant?"

"My head really hurts..."

After the teammates were awakened, their residual symptoms were similar to those of Yun Xinghe. After they were sent to the medical room one by one, they basically returned to normal within a week.

In the bridge control room.

All the members discussed and adopted Oma Nebula's strategy.

"The Oma Nebula is not thick, with an average thickness of about 3 light years, and the thinnest point is less than 1 light year. However, the area is very large, with a length of more than 70 light years and a width of more than 20 light years. The concentration of internal matter should not be It's so big that starlight can pass through most areas..."

"But the dangers cannot be ignored. Space storms and special magnetic fields may cause abnormal flight conditions or malfunctions of the spacecraft. It is impossible to bypass this nebula. That will increase the voyage duration by ten years. Even if the spacecraft is lowered The speed and crossing in a straight line are more cost-effective than going around.”

The question is: How low should the speed of the spacecraft be reduced?

"0.35 times the speed of light. At this speed, the force alloy should be able to withstand the impact of low-density matter."

Chief Engineer Xia Xingkong said, after thinking for a while, he added: "After entering the interior of the nebula, frictional resistance will also reduce the speed of the spacecraft, and the temperature on the surface of the spacecraft will increase... Therefore, it is not appropriate to start the main engine, and the spacecraft's speed, automatically decelerate to a safe range, and then turn on the power system.”

"Then it's better to slow down the spacecraft to the minimum. There is no shortage of energy on the Feitian, but one-third of the acceleration medium has been used up. Some should be replenished. We can open the material collector on the spacecraft and collect some acceleration. Medium." Sugaru suggested at the right time.

However, the material collector can only be used normally when the speed of the spacecraft is less than 0.1C. Beyond this speed, the collector will be damaged by high-speed particles.

But some people think it is not necessary. After passing through the Oma Nebula, fly about ten light years and reach the P654J star. The accelerating medium should be enough, and there is no need to supplement it. To save time, the spacecraft should use no less than 0.3 C, passing through the Oma Nebula.

Faced with these opinions, to be on the safe side, Yun Xinghe said: "It is better to wait until the spacecraft automatically drops to 0.1C, then open the material collector and replenish some acceleration medium. When the acceleration medium is fully replenished, introduce part of it into the material reaction Burn in the furnace and no longer use energy blocks, saving some energy consumption."

In addition to iron elements, the material reactor on the spacecraft can burn everything. As long as there is a continuous supply of materials, the spacecraft will have an inexhaustible energy source.

…

Two months later.

The Feitian, whose speed dropped to 0.35C, plunged into the Oma Nebula.

"Boom boom boom~"

A large number of atoms continue to rub and explode on the surface of the spacecraft.

The Feitian shook violently, its speed continued to decrease, and the temperature on the surface of the ship rose to more than 3,000 degrees within a few hours, like carbon wrapped in a ball of fire.

Yun Xinghe and the others still underestimated the difficulty of traveling through this nebula. It was okay in the thin outer area. After entering the dense area in the center, the material concentration suddenly increased, as if they had entered a viscous glue lake, and the speed was extremely fast. Can't get up.

There are also violent storms. This kind of space storm is not just a few levels or dozens of levels, but dozens or hundreds of levels! The hurricane's speed can reach thousands of kilometers per second. The Feitian was blown countless times into abnormal flight postures, rolling, spinning, or flying around like fallen leaves in the autumn wind.

The crew members in the spacecraft were all vomiting and having diarrhea, and their heads were spinning so dizzy that they couldn't tell the difference between east, west, north, south, up, down, left, and right.

They hated it so much, why was their spaceship so small that it couldn't even stop a small space storm?

If there is a billion-ton heavy-duty spacecraft, it will not be afraid of this hurricane at all!

It was still the helmsman Sugaru, who gritted his teeth and controlled the operating lever with tears in his eyes. From time to time, he turned the afterburner of the spacecraft to the maximum, adjusted the direction of the engine nozzle, and tried hard to adjust his attitude and escape the influence of the storm.

This process of ecstasy lasted for more than a year. Some people even vomited bile. On average, everyone lost more than ten kilograms. Finally, they finally flew out of the center of the biggest storm.

It took more than three years, and after flying out of the Oma Nebula, everyone looked back at the enchanting and beautiful nebula, and everyone felt a lingering fear.

And they swore in their hearts that next time they encounter this kind of nebula, they would rather fly for ten more years than stay in it for a year!