Chapter 57 A Blank Future
John left, filled with shock, confusion, and a sense of bewilderment towards the unknown.
In fact, he had never really stopped either. The exploration spaceship heading towards Alpha Centauri was still slowly crawling towards its target at a speed of four-thousandths of the speed of light, with a journey of 92 years.
Just as the research on the aerospace system by humans in the 20th century had brought about a great many complex scientific research achievements and greatly changed the way humans produced and lived, the subsidiary achievements from Wen Hua's research on time and space exploration were also changing all aspects of the human world.
Although John had thought that his research goal over the past few decades might be surpassed by his peers, especially in the current era of the AI-driven productivity explosion, many of his poor theoretical physics peers, now free from financial worries, were developing rapidly.
He just never expected that in terms of the practical application of gravity, the first achievements would actually come from the information field, which had nothing to do with their research direction.
With Wen Hua's curvature bulbous bow technology passing the verification of the AI Second World, a real curvature spaceship, a high-speed spaceship capable of flying close to the speed of light, had already appeared on the virtual shelves under the improvement of the AI system, with a selling price of 300,000 star coins.
At the same time, the scientific conference of the Human Federation was also nervously organizing people to review the papers submitted by Professor Wen Hua and arrange relevant verification work.
However, when they found that the curvature spaceship with a speed close to the speed of light had already started to be sold on the AI Second World, although the corresponding review continued, no one mentioned the verification anymore.
As high-speed spaceships were continuously delivered to homes with free shipping from the virtual shelves.
It could be predicted that the second batch of exploration spaceships would set out in large numbers from all directions of the solar system. By then, John and his team, who were crawling at a speed of four-thousandths of the speed of light, would also transfer to the curvature spaceship expedition fleet that caught up with them from behind and continue to move towards their target.
Only the original 92-year journey would be shortened to 5 years.
After a month's journey, Wen Hua and her team finally reached their destination.
The Tianhe Deep Space Port in the Earth-Moon space.
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The huge fleet, dragged by the tugboats in the port, slowly approached the berthing area.
Standing by the porthole, Song Han looked at the Tianhe, which kept getting bigger as they approached and finally filled his entire field of vision, trying to find something similar to the Tianhe where he had lived for a while in his memory.
After comparing for a long time, he finally gave up in frustration. This was a huge behemoth that connected the sky and the earth, a three-dimensional livable space no smaller than the Eurasian continental plate on Earth.
Compared with the place where he had briefly stayed 60 years ago, the Tianhe, whose total core mass was 14.63 million tons at that time, now had a heavy mass that exceeded the calculation scope of humans, and it was constantly expanding all the time.
The great shock brought by its huge mass gradually alleviated Song Han's deep-seated fear of the Third Kind of Civilization that he couldn't reach or understand in his memory.
And the huge warships slowly cruising beside him further filled the sense of security that was missing in his heart.
With a sway, the spaceship docked at the shore. With the help of the built-in magnetic field corresponding fixing scheme, the spaceship finally got rid of the anchoring method of manual tying that had been used for hundreds of years.
The magnetic induction simulated gravity system throughout the entire space station covered all aspects. Compared with the Tianhe that was only supplied with resources from a single country, Country X on Earth, in the past.
Now, with the feedback of resources from the entire solar system, many huge system projects that could make the cosmic environment more livable were finally put to good use.
The vast space with an interval of 500 meters between each floor, the ceiling curtain wall was constantly covered by holographic projections, playing the image of a blue sky. The real model environment system made people not feel oppressed at all.
The green plants cultivated by the drip irrigation soilless cultivation method were arranged in rows on both sides of the road, clearly dividing the boundaries, showing the obvious infrastructure style of Country X.
The magnetic levitation cars flying close to the ground still retained the basic outline of the cars in the Earth era, and the ancient-style buildings crisscrossing on both sides of the road made it difficult for you to tell whether you were in deep space or on the ground.
The rushing motorcade finally stopped in front of a solemn auditorium. The standard ancient-style stone building made all the pedestrians standing in front of the auditorium subconsciously slow down their steps.
Song Han blinked at the building in front of him:
"Did you move the Great Hall here?"
The staff beside him explained:
"Mr. Song, this is a replica. The original building, along with the buildings and ancient relics in the former capital city of Country X, have now been listed as world cultural heritage sites.
Because the latest environmental protection law stipulates a comprehensive ban on the development of the Earth's environment, all administrative units on Earth have now been uniformly transferred to Tianhe City.
At the latest 30th Human Federation Environmental Conference, the Earth will truly become the Cradle Star in the future and can only be used for educational purposes by children under a certain age and teenagers within the age of 30.
It will become the real cradle for the future of humanity. After all, it is very difficult to find a place with a gravitational environment that can perfectly match human growth and development within the entire solar system currently."
"Teenagers within the age of 30..."
The other person's words made Song Han feel a lot of emotions. He turned his head and looked at Professor Wen Hua, who had been frowning since getting off the spaceship, and asked:
"I haven't been back to Earth since I left it 60 years ago. Now that I finally came back, why didn't you let me go home but brought me here?"
"Decades of living in microgravity have made it difficult for you to adapt to the Earth's gravity. If you want, you can invite your blood relatives and family members to come up for a reunion. But now we don't have time."
"No time? What do you mean?"
Following the guidance of the staff, the group walked quickly into the auditorium and came to a spacious conference room.
On the stage of the conference room, the banner of the 24th National Scientific Progress Conference was still slightly swaying under the disturbance of the airflow when they pushed the door open.
Wen Hua and her team walked onto the stage and received the honor that belonged to them amidst a burst of warm applause.
Looking at the high-spirited Professor Wen Hua, Song Han said with a dark face:
"Is the so-called no time just for you to come here to receive an award?"
As soon as Song Han's words fell, a large number of staff members immediately rushed onto the stage and cleared away all the decorations on the stage.
As two staff members rose into the air, a banner that read "The First Symposium on the War with Extraterrestrial Civilizations of the Human Federation" covered the words of the Scientific Progress Conference.
Professor Wen Hua stood up again and walked onto the podium. One by one, data documents and experimental reports were forwarded by her and immediately appeared in front of everyone.
"Since the results of the real-time cross-time and space information transfer experiment were accepted by the system a month ago, the AI system has organized several large-scale real-time information transfer experiments, but without exception, all the experiments failed!"
"What do you mean?"
"Can't the experiment be replicated?"
"Admit it! I knew your experiment was just to defraud research funds!"
Before anyone knew it, the holographic projection of Professor John, who had already left the solar system, also appeared in the conference hall.
"Who is he?"
Song Han turned his head and looked at a serious-looking old man beside him. Just as he was about to pat the other person, he saw his hand pass through the other person's figure.
"Professor John from the Deep Space Gravity Laboratory of Country C."
Song Han waved his hand back and forth several times again, and finally slapped the shoulder of a young man beside him.
After Song Han's confirmation, besides the staff members from the other side of deep space who came with him, the others around him were all projections;
"Since they are all projections, why did they come all the way here? Wouldn't it be better to hold the meeting directly in the Second World?"
Someone beside him turned his head and looked at Song Han and said:
"Sense of ceremony! Do you understand the sense of ceremony!"
"Young man, do you understand respecting the elderly and caring for the young!"
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"No! There is someone interfering!"
Wen Hua's voice was still firm!
As Wen Hua's words fell, a series of strange third-person perspective videos appeared in front of everyone.
Those were all kinds of strange ways of dying. Compared with Song Han's previous death by sniper, explosions, and nuclear explosions, these images of numerous ways of dying were obviously more creative.
"During the transfer of past information, although the experiment failed, the information transmitted back further verified the establishment of the real-time cross-time and space information transfer experiment.
However, referring to the results of the 'past' experiment, when conducting experiments on the future, we found that our future is completely blank!"