Because this feeling was sad, Chase didn’t want to affect the people around him.
By the way, during the journey in recent years, under the persuasion of Jayne Lin and others, Chase decided to marry Reba Chen.
He agreed to give Reba credit after human beings had settled down again.
He did not know the purpose or mood of his final agreement with the proposal.
Maybe it was to make up for Reba.
Perhaps it was for inheriting Lu’s family and giving birth to several sons with Reba.
In the first few months, he did not go back and stayed in the captain’s office or the House of Scientists every day.
He worked hard to make himself forget these things.
Because Jayne still occupied a very important position in his mind, he felt sorry for Reba.
On the other hand, because Jayne couldn’t give birth again and she had only one daughter, he would marry Reba. He felt that it was unfair to Jayne.
Such a contradictory mood made him actually wanted to escape from reality.
He asked Reba to help him take care of the captain’s office while he went straight to the House of Scientists.
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The Sun was so fast that The Hope Fleet soon passed through the Oort of Epsilon Eridani and reached the top of the Heliosphere before sailing at almost light speed.
The stellar wind emitted by Epsilon Eridani stopped here. Outside the top of the Heliosphere was interstellar radiation, and within the top of the Heliosphere was the territory of Epsilon Eridani.
Here was two hundred billion kilometers away from Epsilon Eridani. Although Epsilon Eridani was smaller than the Sun, its stellar activity was 30 times stronger than that of the Sun because it was too young. Correspondingly, the distance from the top of the Heliosphere to the main fixed star was 10 times greater than that of the Sun.
For the first time, scientists had directly detected high-energy charged particles from Epsilon Eridani here.
It was weird that there was no such thing in the Epsilon Eridani system, like the Kuiper belt in the solar system.
Chase and others estimated that this may be due to the special composition of its inner planets, and their gravitational engagement emptied the material in this area.
This meant that the number of observable comets in Epsilon Eridani was much less than that in the solar system.
At the current speed of The Hope, it would not take much time to complete this 200-billion-kilometer journey.
But to be careful, Chase decided to slow down.
This year’s journey needed to find out whether there was an alien civilization on Epsilon Eridani.
Whether the air on the only rocky planet was habitable for humans and so on.
As time went by, The Hope was only 3 billion kilometers away from Epsilon Eridani.
This distance was about the distance between Uranus and the Sun.
Here, for the first time, Chase observed the brilliant Aurora at the poles of the gaseous planet, Epsilon Eridani B.
Epsilon Eridani B was like Jupiter, a small one, with a magnetic field five times that of the Earth.
The stellar wind intensity of Epsilon Eridani was 30 times that of the Sun. Under the combination of the two factors, Epsilon Eridani B’s laser was extremely spectacular, like a bright blue interstellar whip, majestic in space.
Chase steered The Hope to slow down again, and 20 days later, it reached Epsilon Eridani B orbit.
As it happened, Epsilon Eridani B just ran to the place not far from The Hope.
Looking at this small gas planet, Chase felt extremely excited.
The real exploration was about to start. Whether Epsilon Eridani was a safe area for human beings and whether Epsilon Eridani A was a New Earth for human beings would soon come to the surface.
Even Chase was a little nervous these days.
A large number of detectors were launched by the House of Scientists and entered the orbit around Epsilon Eridani A, and a continuous stream of information was collected.
“If Epsilon Eridani A is really our New Earth, then in the next few decades, I must get the whole planet high-developed. When the time comes, anyone who dares to invade our territory will be crushed!”
Chase thought silently.
The theory of the dark universe had given him a PTSD. In order to guard against possible alien civilization, human beings must try their best to improve their own strength and ensure that their scientific research projects could go on smoothly.
Sixteen days later, hope crossed the orbit of Epsilon Eridani B and finally could see the rocky planet Epsilon Eridani A, which was half the size of Earth.
However, at a time when everyone was looking forward to the development of a new home, a data threw a damp over on people.
That was, the air on Epsilon Eridani A was lack of oxygen, which couldn’t maintain human life.
In this regard, 200000 people on The Hope were extremely depressed.
What was the next goal?
Where was the human home?
Chase lit a cigarette and looked out at the dark space, feeling helpless.
“No matter what, Epsilon Eridani A has a lot of resources we need. Let’s replenish energy materials here first.”
“In this period of great construction, we will strive to break through human science, technology, and liberal arts to three-level civilization, and then we will leave!”
Chase gave the order, and then The Hope slowly flew into the orbit of Epsilon Eridani A.
They send the same probe into the atmosphere of Epsilon Eridani A.
A day later, it turned out that there was no alien civilization on Epsilon Eridani A. Still, there were some plants that did not need to breathe too much oxygen.
These plants were dark yellow and couldn’t photosynthesize.
The most important thing was that the plants were not dangerous.
Then The Hope came to Epsilon Eridani A successfully. The next step was to develop Epsilon Eridani A and expand The Hope Fleet.
Time flies.
After a big construction, five years had passed.
In the past five years, human science had undergone a qualitative change and finally reached the third level of civilization.
Taking advantage of the rich resources here, The Hope had been expanded again, and now a county-level spaceship had been built.
The county-level spaceship had been able to accommodate the normal life of millions of human beings, and its appearance was also quite huge and spectacular.
The two village-level spaceships of the dwarfs were transformed into town level, and they were finally allowed to have children.
Besides, The Hope built more than 50 frigates.
These frigates were small, half the size of the original Hope, and were equipped with various top weapons developed by human beings over the years.
At this time, the scientific and technological strength of mankind, compared with the time when they were on Earth, was simply the God-like level.
And it was at a time when human beings were focused on technology.
Two billion kilometers away from Epsilon Eridani, a twist suddenly appeared in the dark space.
Something pure white, streamlined, like a drop of water, appeared.
It seemed that it had life and monitored the humans’ movement.
A month later, it sent a message to The Hope’s central computer.
“Hello, strangers.”