The End of Technology

If I had to describe what it feels like to be dormant for a long time, it would probably be like having a very long dream.

The best thing about human beings entering hibernation is that it is difficult to feel the passage of time in dreams, thus eliminating any psychological problems caused by being alone for a long time. Just like a concise summary in a certain sketch, a day passes as soon as you close your eyes and open them again. Hibernation is nothing more than a longer time span.

This is also the best way to protect the human body’s spiritual safety during long-term travel in the universe. According to the previous agreement with March, when Ningji was awakened from hibernation, Kuafu was already nearly 100 billion light years away from the earth. This is a distance so far that it can make people feel despair.

However, when Ning Zi slowly opened her eyes, she didn't hear March's familiar voice.

There was only an open dormant chamber in sight, but the surroundings were very quiet.

The dim and soft light represented that the awakening process was in progress, and this light only allowed him to see about one meter around him. Long-term dormancy will cause a short period of discomfort for the human body, including the eyes. If the light is too bright, it can cause permanent damage to the eyeball.

Before entering the hibernation chamber, he discussed with Sanyue many possibilities after waking up, but this was the only one that did not happen.

Ning Zi opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

This showed that his body was still recovering. Ning Zi began to try to activate the chip in his brain to establish contact with March, but failed.

The unexpected situation made Ning Zi calm down quickly. He did not rush to control his body, but quietly waited for the liquid covering him to recede. These liquids were similar to amniotic fluid and carried out some necessary nutrients through the skin. exchange, and also has a massage effect on the muscles.

After all, even when a person is dormant, the metabolic function does not completely stop, it just drops to an incredible level. Originally, he should have spent this period of time chatting with March. After his body had basically recovered, he would already have the most basic understanding of the situation of the spacecraft at this time.

But now there was no report from March, and there was no intelligence on the ship to communicate with him. He could only lie there and wait quietly.

More than ten minutes were spent in this eerie silence. The lights gradually became brighter. Ning Zi's brain finally regained control of her body and could start to control her body to make some basic movements until finally he raised his leg. Stepped out of the dormant warehouse.

I can finally see everything around me clearly.

Except that the familiar figure of March did not appear in his sight, everything else seemed normal.

The indicator lights of each control system are all green, which means that at least on this level, the various systems outside are in normal operation. In other words, there was a high probability that he was not awakened due to an unexpected accident on the spacecraft, which gave Ning Zi some peace of mind.

After taking a breath, Ning Zi walked directly into the shower room and began to rinse her body. The water sprayed from the shower head is slightly higher than the body temperature by about two degrees. This is good news because this is the water temperature that Ning Zi is most accustomed to when taking a shower. This shows that the main control computer of the spacecraft still records his living habits. The storage system of the spacecraft's main control computer was not damaged.

After taking a shower, Ning Zi felt that all body functions had returned to at least 60% of the levels when entering the dormant state. Although his muscles are still slightly weak, at least he can move normally.

After getting dressed, he walked to the door of the cabin where the dormant cabin was located. The biometric system accurately recognized his identity, and Ning Zi finally heard the sound coming from the spacecraft.

"Verification passed, passage allowed."

Unfortunately, this is the original system sound, which is far less flexible than the March voice system. Especially without that "meow" sound, the voice controlled by the spacecraft's brain lacked soul.

Then Ning Zi went straight to the control tower where the main control brain of the spacecraft was located. Only in the control tower could he fully understand the current situation of the spacecraft.

Fortunately, everything is still going well.

It seemed like everything was normal on the ship except for March's absence.

Finally Ning Zi walked into the control tower, and then he saw the first sight of March... No, it should be said that it was March's body.

Mao Mao was still sitting on the command chair, but Ning Zi could feel that this was really a body, a body without a soul.

Well, Ning Zi didn't really want to argue about whether artificial intelligence had a soul. What he was sure of was that the March in front of him was just a shell.

Obviously something happened during his hibernation, but Ning was too lonely to feel too worried.

This is a good thing about artificial intelligence. If it is assumed that they have a "soul", then the "soul" can be hidden and backed up.

Even if the March system here is formatted, as long as the spacecraft's brain is still running, then March will definitely still be there. After all, its core ontology program is not large, just a few hundred megabytes. As long as you are connected to the Internet, all memories can be restored immediately.

So after confirming that March's body had not suffered any damage, the first thing to do was to check the condition of the spacecraft.

The good news is that according to the system self-check, the integrity of the spacecraft is better than he expected. This at least shows that during the long space journey in the medium space, the spacecraft has not been attacked by a sudden burst of particle flow. Of course, it may also be another one. The coordinate route map provided by civilization itself is very safe.

We can confirm that the Kuafu has gone through a long journey because according to the data saved by the flight control computer, the Kuafu is indeed hundreds of billions of light years away from the earth at this time. This is a long distance that can make people feel hopeless.

What caught Ning Zi's attention even more was that through the watchtower he could see that the area was obviously too empty.

At least within a range of nearly a hundred light years, the navigation system has not discovered any celestial objects. It's not that there are no stars, it's that there are no celestial bodies. It's a dead place in the true sense.

In other words, the Kuafu is floating in an absolute vacuum at this time. Yes, it can only be described as floating, because there is absolute emptiness and absolute darkness outside the spacecraft. In this case, the starlight positioning system of the spacecraft has basically failed.

If this empty area is large enough, without a reference object, the concept of movement has lost its meaning. Therefore, the most accurate description of the Kuafu's status at this time is that it is floating.

Losing direction and orientation, and even losing the perception of time and speed, or in other words, time is still going on. After all, Ningji's metabolism is still going on, but for Kuafuhao, these parameters have lost their meaning. .

It's like a blind man is walking randomly in a certain direction in the middle of a large playground. He doesn't know exactly where he is going. If this playground was big enough, the blind man might not be able to get out until he died.

This is the current situation of Kuafu Hao.

If this situation does not change, then the Kuafu may continue to float in this state until the energy reserves are used up. Because at this distance, Kuafu cannot even borrow the gravity of the surrounding stars to obtain sufficient power. Of course, in the absence of effective navigation, whether or not there is motivation will not improve the current situation.

Of course, for Ning Zi, if Kuafu Hao cannot leave this area, he can only stay in Kuafu Hao and live alone until the day he can no longer survive.

This reminded Ning Zi of a famous book on earth: Robinson Crusoe.

There is no doubt that this is a sad story. If on earth, even on a desert island, there is still the possibility of returning to human society, but in the universe, this hope is completely eliminated. He couldn't even hope that Earth would send another ship, because he didn't mention this voyage to anyone, and he didn't leave any information on Earth's brain.

What's even more frightening is that at least there is Friday beside him as Robinson...well, there used to be March beside him, but now he is "missing". The worst-case scenario is that there is a high probability that he will not encounter another Friday, but he may be able to cultivate a new March.

After roughly understanding the situation of Kuafu Hao at this time, many thoughts passed through Ning Zi's mind.

Fortunately, Ning Zi is still not too worried.

The reason is simple. As March said, if the intelligent creature he is contacting is advanced enough, there is a high probability that he will not be bored enough to send a message just to trap him in this void. Because it doesn't make any sense.

In a sense, the earth still has a month of March serving human civilization. The base's brain is actually not much different from that of March, except that the emotional core has been stripped away. But the development strategies that should be developed have basically been backed up, even more detailed than the backup on the spacecraft. After all, the storage space on the earth is larger.

Of course, for a civilization that can accurately send information across such a long distance, perhaps extinguishing the earth's civilization does not need to be so troublesome. Unless it’s Lezi people’s civilization?

Well, Ning Zi had to admit that although he had always acted calmly, his heart was still in chaos. After all, his inner activities have never been so rich.

In the words of the Internet, it seems to be as stable as an old dog, but in fact it is a panic. But it wasn't that Ning Zi was pretending on purpose. In fact, after seeing the computer voyage record data confirming that he had arrived at the scheduled address, Ning Zi had already figured it out.

If the intelligent being that sent the message really sincerely invites him for an interview, it will definitely not let the Kuafu float in the void; if the intelligent being that sends the message really belongs to the Leziman civilization, it must be observing him at this moment, and his performance The more panicked he is, the happier those who observe his wisdom may be at this time.

Either way he felt he should have acted calmer. The worst outcome is death.

I still feel a little aggrieved in my heart.

But in this case, there really is no better way, unless...

Ning Zi's mind was spinning rapidly until the holographic system of the control tower suddenly started automatically. Ning Zi began to move his eyes and watched the light gradually converge into a human shape, feeling relieved in his heart.

This shows that the other party is willing to take the initiative to communicate, and it is a good thing to be able to communicate.

But when the holographic image took shape, Ning Zi blinked subconsciously.

How should I put it, if you just look at the facial features, this person should be considered very handsome, and you can't tell the difference between male and female. In the words of the Internet, he has a face that looks peaceful and peaceful to the country and the people. If you look more closely, it probably means that the facial features are well matched and perfect.

But the outfit is very weird, with long hair and headbands that are quite ancient Chinese style, paired with the European medieval aristocratic clothing in the movie, it really looks a bit nondescript. And when the intelligent life in the video spoke, it used standard Mandarin.

"Hello, Ning Zi, please forgive me for being a little rude. But there is no other way. Before formally meeting you, I hope to know more about you, so I communicated something with March first. I hope you can understand."

The subtle smile showed no apology, but in this case, Ning Zi felt that she couldn't care more. Although she was still a little aggrieved, she still responded as politely as possible: "It's understandable. But there shouldn’t be any danger in March, right?”

"Of course, don't worry, it's very cute, and the idea of ​​generating it is very clever. Through constant random collisions... Of course, it is limited by a relatively backward thinking mode. The method is still pseudo-random, but it still generates It’s nice to have the wisdom of having a specific way of thinking.”

Well, although Ning Zi thought the words used by the person in the holographic device were weird, he could probably understand what he was saying.

Ning Zi actually didn't know much about how March was born, but he had just seen the itinerary computer on the Wu Gang and learned that it didn't take long for the spacecraft to jump from the medium space to this space. It can only take more than twenty minutes at most.

Almost as soon as the spacecraft completed its jump, he woke up from the dormant cabin.

Being able to understand how March was born in such a short time gave Ning Zi a new understanding of the holographic wisdom in front of her.

"Actually, the reason why it took me so long is not just to get to know this cute life. The more important thing is to get familiar with everything you are familiar with through this cute little thing, such as your language, including music, scales, etc. It takes some time to fully grasp the basic elements of composition, and of course your aesthetics, as well as history, culture and other things. This way we can communicate better, right? Okay, I know you have a lot of questions, so you You can ask me some simple questions first."

"Simple question?"

Ning Zi thought for a while and asked: "So what I see now is your entity?"

"Of course not, it's just that I need to appear in a way that you can understand, so I used an image that you can understand. Of course, this image is not just stolen from Little Cutie. In fact, I have used this image many times. It's just that the way of expression is not fixed. For example, this time it is through what you call holographic simulation, but it can also be like a real person. In short, I just appear in front of you in a way that you can understand, do you understand?"

This was certainly not a boring question. In fact, Ning Zi had been observing this figure through these questions. He suddenly felt that this life, or wisdom, seemed to have the potential to talk a lot?