“Fire! Silence! Salute!”
With the sound of the blank cartridges, more than 1000 coffins floated from the bridge into the universe.
They were the remains of human heroes who died on Mars and Titan.
Today, The Hope held a grand star funeral for them.
In the crowd, thousands of people had burst into tears.
All the people around were bowing their heads in silent mourning, and all the soldiers present were sent with a military salute.
The Hope represented the last hope of mankind.
One hundred and ten thousand people stepped on The Hope. In just over a year, more than one thousand people had been sacrificed.
Facing the lonely journey in the next decade, how many people could safely arrive at Planet B?
How many people would be lucky to keep the last human legacy alive in Planet B?
No one would know!
No one dared to think about such a heavy problem.
According to the custom of the people from Country C, the seventh night after death was named Touqi.
But The Hope was going through something difficult that Chase had to postpone the date of the star funeral to today.
Everyone gathered in the lobby outside the bridge to hold the first star funeral of The Hope.
“Salute ritual finish!”
With the shouts of the commander, all the soldiers finished the salute, but no one moved or talked.
They all looked deep into the universe.
The coffin still loomed, everyone’s eyes were so gloomy, the expressions were so sad.
Especially those who survived the Martian disaster, their eyes were firm and resolute as if the ice which would never melt.
Only when they looked at their relatives and the people in The Hope that the ice in their heart melted and became warm like a breeze.
During the whole ceremony, Chase did not say a word.
There were no senior executives, including Wade Xie and Wall Wang, from the new government, who came forward to say a word.
The whole ceremony was so solemn until it was over.
Except for those family members and some people, the rest left in silence, all of which were so different from a normal funeral.
“Why don’t you go up and say something? I think it’s a comfort to their families.” On the way back, Reba Chen was puzzled.
According to her understanding, she felt that today’s special moment, the families of those heroes who died were most in need of comfort.
“What can I say? The achievements of those human heroes? It will be just an insult to them.” Chase shook his head and said.
Wade and Wall had discussed this issue with him before, but both met with his and the military’s consistent opposition.
No one would know what kind of heroes those victims were.
Except for the soldiers who survived the Martian disaster, and the warriors who fought in the blood and fire.
On Mars, they fought with Martian monsters.
They fought, they worked hard, they sacrificed.
In this way, they were real heroes, so we should treat them with the glory of heroes!
Well, in this case, talking about great achievements…
It would be blasphemy to the heroes!
It would be insulting to the heroes!
“Well, I misunderstood that.” Reba nodded, half understanding what Chase said.
“Keep all the names and deeds of all the heroes, as well as all the recorded videos of the battle, and bring them back into the library.” Chase suddenly looked at Reba with a serious expression.
“At the same time, the battle video will be backed up in the central computer, with the highest medal, the human Hero Medal, as awarded.”
“We should let our future generations and the whole human civilization remember them and know that it was their sacrifice that subsisted our human civilization!” Chase said as he walked.
As Reba nodded, he recorded all that Chase said.
However, as he said, he suddenly coughed, which startled Reba.
“Are you okay?” She stopped recording and asked.
Chase waved his hand, “it’s okay. The wound was a little infected last time. I’ll go and have it managed again.”
Although his wound was sutured last time, he was so busy these three days that he even slept less than five hours a day.
Although he was in good health, he worked too much and took too little rest, which also infected his wound and caused a cold.
However, he was ready to have a good rest in the next few days. They have enough resources to go to Planet B. He had nothing to worry about recently.
As for scientific research, Dasin Ding taking charge of it made him feel at ease.
“Let me go with you to the medical department.” Reba pulled Chase to the medical department.
Chase was supposed to go to the medical department, and with a smile, he followed Reba to the medical department.
After the doctor’s careful treatment, as well as in the doctor’s strong request.
In the next few days, Chase stayed at home to recuperate.
But he had always been a restless man.
Especially after resolutely taking the 110000 people with him to leave the earth to find a new home.
He could never let himself rest since then.
Even if he was ill, he didn’t want to let himself idle.
Because——
There was a long way to go. What waited for him would be a long journey of 4. 2 light-years and a long time of 10 years.
Four light-years were nothing in the universe.
But for human beings, ten years was a long time.
Because there were just a few decades in a human’s life.
It was a period of time enough to drive humans into madness.
And——
What kind of dangerous things would they encounter during the journey? What would happen?
They didn’t know.
But when they flew out and stepped out of the earth, humans had no choice.
No matter how dangerous the future was, no matter what the future of mankind was like, bright or perishing?
All he had to do was taking the last 110000 humans and moving on.
In fact, the current technology on The Hope was 0. 4 times the speed of light. In terms of the short life span of human beings, it could only be said that they had acquired the ability of interplanetary navigation.
Because at the speed of their current nuclear fusion power, the constant interstellar journey could take several decades and hundreds of years, which was enough to shut out all creatures whose life span was less than 1000 years.
What’s more, human beings could only live decades or a hundred years around.
So, in the next few years, Chase was going to do a lot of research on sailing speed technology.
Not to mention exceeding the speed of light, at least the speed of navigation should be increased to 0. 7 to 0. 8 times the speed of light.
Only in this way, they would have more choices and responses when they encounter any accidents in the future.
On earth, human scientists had made calculations.
The minimum threshold for constant interstellar travel was half the speed of light.
But even so, the entire galaxy was incredibly large, with 160000 light-years in diameter and hundreds of billions of stars.
It would take 160000 years for humans to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other, even at the speed of light.