studiobondurri Chapter 365 356 Sudden Recollections (Part 2)
Chapter 365 356 Sudden Recollections (Part 2)
The tragedies they had experienced did not end with their venture into space, rather they embarked on another kind of tragedy.
Dr. Bean, as the head of the project and the main possessor of the spaceship's technology, became the most powerful person on the ship. When the ship took off, many compromises were made, and the number of people aboard was much more than planned.
Dr. Bean's flight destination was a planet suspected to be habitable, Chadi Star, which was about 234 astronomical units away from Taoran Star. The spaceship did not carry much fuel; it mainly traveled at a constant speed in space, utilizing each encounter with planets to use their gravity to sling the spaceship forward, resulting in acceleration.
According to calculations, it would take 70 years for the spaceship to reach Chadi Star. For an ordinary person, wasting 70 years is extremely terrifying. For a young person like Hu, who was still young when they left, by the time they reached Chadi Star, they might have become a centenarian or even not survive that long.
Dr. Bean quickly made a decision. He selected the passengers he deemed "most valuable" and placed them in Life Support Containers, preserving their youth and saving their time. When the spaceship would arrive at Chadi Star, they would still be of their original age.
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These so-called most valuable passengers were none other than the Taoran Star's elite, military bigwigs, business tycoons, and scientists. However, the spaceship could not operate without people, so Dr. Bean trained a group of people—many were young individuals like Hu, with certain knowledge and skills—and the rest were from the colonies.
Dr. Bean told the remaining crew that in order to save the spaceship's resources and preserve a seed of Taoran Star, he made such a decision, asserting that those who stayed were truly alive, while those who were frozen were as good as dead.
At first, Hu and his companions saw nothing wrong with this rationale. They lived alone on the spaceship, and the initial excitement quickly faded. The crew read books brought from Taoran Star, told stories to each other after finishing them, and it even escalated to no-holds-barred sexual free-for-alls among the male and female crew members. Hu watched as, in order to stave off boredom, the crew members continuously swapped partners for mating. He himself felt unimaginable, became even more reclusive, facing the pitch-black space, zoning out.
As time passed, some of the female crew members became pregnant, which added a bit of vitality to the spaceship. People started preparing for the birth of new life, although no one could discern who the fathers of the children were.
He wasn't frightened by this, as he had long ago discovered the wondrous aspects of the universe. He felt he was gaining an entirely new way to understand the universe and harness power, unaware that this power was called Star Energy.
He halted his aging, maintaining the appearance of a middle-aged man, and lived on this spaceship. He grew crops from Taoran Star in his bed, contemplating the universe's mysteries and carrying on this way.
Seventy years after the spaceship left Taoran Star, it ultimately failed to reach Chadi Star as Doctor Dou had anticipated. The navigator had miscalculated the redshift, veering severely off course, and the spaceship was now more than 15 astronomical units away from Chadi Star.
He was not disheartened by this, his life unchanged, until thirty years later, when the spaceship was entering a nebula, he encountered Bai Zhongqi and Zero's agent.
His story was a long one, which he told in almost excruciating detail, along with his feelings about many things. Bai Zhongqi could truly sense that, even though he had learned to face solitude, upon meeting someone capable of communication, he was still very willing to talk.
Even if it was through a form of mind communication.
Bai Zhongqi was somewhat shocked by his story. The universe he had experienced was already very cold, but hearing such a cold cosmic story still made him feel uneasy.
In such an environment, the concepts of good and evil may have lost their meaning, and even the significance of survival itself might have been diminished. It could also be that in such conditions, he became a Star Warrior.
At this moment, Zero addressed Bai Zhongqi directly through the Deep Sleep System, "Your Majesty, if I'm not mistaken, then this individual, Hu, should be a Star Warrior master."
Bai Zhongqi had actually already faintly guessed this possibility. Now under the Star Alliance, there were over one thousand five hundred Star Warriors, but only two, Nan Ma and Zero, could be considered Star Warrior masters. The emergence of a Star Warrior master was extremely difficult, yet in this remote corner of the universe, Bai Zhongqi had encountered a Star Warrior master like Hu.
The Chancellor hesitated. This was an unknown fellow, but his power was considerable. If he could be put to use by the Star Alliance, it would be very valuable indeed.