Chapter 160: Chapter 161 Supernova Explosion! Chapter 160: Chapter 161 Supernova Explosion! One epoch’s end often ans the beginning of another. What remains unchanged is that epochs always belong to the vibrant youth.
In the year 4933 of the Earth Era, Zhang Yuan once again opened his eyes from a dream, starting his ninth awake period.
“Ti to get up, it’s ti!”
The white light, the tiny room filled with a sense of security, still the sa girl. It’s still a cold year, but having a familiar and reliable partner during such tis brought a substantial sense of security.
Thinking back to the previous year without Lin Xuanyuan’s company, Zhang Yuan couldn’t help but softly say, “Co here… give a hug.”
“Ah?” Suddenly hearing this, Lin Xuanyuan felt a twinge in her heart, her eyes slightly moist.
This fool’s first line had always been, “What happened inside the spaceship…”
“…not here, there are others around.”
Following that, Zhang Yuan indeed asked the sa question, “Oh… so, what happened inside the spaceship?”
“I knew you would ask that!” Lin Xuanyuan rubbed her eyes and said with a smile, “Everything is normal, don’t worry.”
“There were a few minor accidents, but overall, they’re still within the acceptable error margin. Guess, over these hundreds of years, have we encountered aliens again?”
“Aliens, there probably aren’t any.”
Perhaps due to the shift schedule, this girl always woke up about half a month earlier than him.
“Has Senior Brother Zhao been promoted to captain yet?” Zhang Yuan asked.
“Yes, you are now the captain’s junior brother, promo, congratulations.”
Zhang Yuan seed to think of sothing that upset him, ignored her joke, and sighed to himself, “Let borrow your phone… I want to look up sothing.”
“Don’t play too long.” Knowing the reason for Zhang Yuan’s subdued mood, Lin Xuanyuan handed him the phone.
The originally brought “Huawei 888” phone from Earth had long since broken down, replaced by a simple black and white screen phone for the elderly, and obviously, there were no gas to play on it.
Various electronic products brought from Earth had been damaged over the years, even including many military-grade chips inside the spaceship, which had been replaced several tis.
Zhang Yuan opened his personal email and found it filled with mail, including a large number of governnt work reports and various captain logs, detailing the incidents that happened in specific epochs.
Following that, among these emails, Zhang Yuan found the obituaries of previous leaders like Academician Ding.
Before passing away, Academician Ding hadn’t left many instructions.
And this series of obituaries once again brought him a sense of mild lancholy. Perhaps, with more experiences of parting, it beca less difficult to accept…
…
In the ti following his discharge, Zhang Yuan beca significantly busier than before. He was now at a level 19 job position, as one of the high-level mbers of the spaceship’s force, he needed to coordinate and arrange the current awake staff and perform maintenance on the spacecraft over and over again.
After all, the Earth-era spaceship was already two thousand seven hundred years old. Two thousand seven hundred years, not just one hundred, the passage of ti magnified the chances of various faults. They could no longer afford to slack off during work, making jokes, lazily catching up on news, or playing gas.
The closer they got to their destination, the less they could afford to take it lightly. If sothing were to happen due to his negligence, Zhang Yuan would never forgive himself.
…
On this day, Zhang Yuan was leading a few communication officers, conducting routine inspections at the Observatory.
This had already beco a routine matter.
The various communications equipnt in the Observatory could occasionally receive electromagnetic signals from across the universe.
Among these electromagnetic signals, the vast majority were chaotic codes emitted by constant stars and neutron stars. However, there was a very small chance that they were signals sent by Earth Civilization or an Alien Civilization.
Of course, since the probability was negligible, everyone was relaxed, treating it as just another routine check.
“The next ti we wake up, we will have arrived at the new Mother Star!”
“Yes, I’m really looking forward to it. 3000 years have just passed like that… I really want to write this journey into a novel.”
“How about crowdsourcing the novel writing? What do you think?”
While listening to his companions’ discussions, Zhang Yuan couldn’t help but join in, “So many years have passed, I wonder how Earth Civilization has developed? Whether it has managed to climb out of its diocrity…”
Another person responded, “Captain Zhang, it’s tough. Once in a slump, it’s unlikely to break free. We are already 18 light years away from the Solar System. Even if soone has a sudden inspiration to communicate with us, they might not be able to pinpoint our exact location. It would be great if soone could emit signals like Professor Aiding.”
“Ah, I wonder how much it would cost to emit high-powered electromagnetic waves. At this distance, being able to transmit a few bytes is already quite incredible.”
From this position observing the Solar System, the Sun had beco a dim point of light. Planets like Earth, rcury, and Venus could no longer be directly observed. These planets could only be indirectly observed through an astronomical phenonon known as “transit” or by phototric thods.
Given the distance of 18 light years, even a huge sphere like Earth was near unreachable. Without an exact location, it was virtually impossible for Earth Civilization to find the specific position of the spaceship. Randomly emitted electromagnetic waves would not be successfully received by the spaceship.
“Hey!”
A colleague suddenly said, “This segnt of electromagnetic waves seems to have so logical connection, but the errors are too excessive; it might just be a coincidence.”
“Just record it for now. Any bit of information from Earth is good. Even if we can’t analyze the results, there’s no loss…”
Zhang Yuan turned to another communications officer, “Have you detected any issues with the hardware?”
“Not at the mont, but the computational speed of this computer is getting slower and slower.”
“If it can be fixed, try to repair it, otherwise, we’ll have to replace the parts… How many parts do we have left…”
Before he finished speaking, suddenly, Zhang Yuan stared blankly for a mont.
He raised his head, his eyes squinting, and remained in a daze for a long ti.
His pupils constricted slightly, as if he couldn’t believe what he was seeing!
In his view, a vast expanse of light shone from the glass cover overhead… In the dim universe, a huge Sun had appeared!
Could it be—sothing exploded?!
The other two communication officers were also staring blankly at the large glass cover of the observatory, unable to react for a while.
The light continued to grow, becoming more and more intense, illuminating the originally dim observatory like daylight, even giving off the feeling of basking in the sumr sun.
Zhang Yuan’s heart began to race, and cold sweat involuntarily broke out on his back.
Snap!
One electronic screen suddenly went dark, and a few others also began to shake violently.
Zhang Yuan pressed several keys on the computer before he could determine the source of this intense light.
A…
Supernova!
More than 7000 light years away, the already unstable Eta Carinae 2, also known as Eta Carinae, had exploded!
At that mont, the brightness of this supernova surpassed the combined total of the Milky Way’s billion stars, becoming the brightest sight in the universe!
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