CHAPTER 509: CHAPTER 277: RESTART? _2

"But..."

"I have a bit of fear of the universe, always felt like there isn’t the same feeling of stability as on a planet."

"In the universe, it always feels like rootless water."

"Moreover, the universe is really too big. The highest speed of the train can reach 5040 km/h, which is an extremely exaggerated speed on a planet, but in the universe, it seems extremely small. With distances of hundreds of light-years, tens of millions of light-years, it feels like you’d be floating in the universe for a lifetime and can’t find a place to land."

"The Mechanical Civilization and Insect Race are waging a full-scale war in the universe. How are they moving through the universe? Do their trains have speeds that surpass light speed?"

"Probably not."

Inside the train compartment, Ai’s voice paused for a moment before continuing: "It’s generally believed that the speed of light is the maximum speed limit in the universe, and cannot be exceeded. For example, we can conduct a simple experiment in our minds."

"When your train is traveling at its maximum speed, and you throw a stone forward, the speed of the stone is definitely faster than when you throw it forward standing on the ground."

"This is called acceleration."

"But if you pull out a flashlight and shine it forward when the train is traveling at maximum speed, you’ll find that the speed of the light is the same as when you’re on the ground, unaffected by the acceleration of the train."

"This is the upper speed limit of the universe, the speed of light."

"1079251200 km/h."

"The Fixed Star is still far from this number, but even reaching it, traveling recklessly in the universe would still be extremely difficult. Many galaxies themselves span billions of light years."

"This means..."

"Even if the Fixed Star Train had a speed like light speed, it would take billions of years to travel from one end of a galaxy to another, and no creature has such a long lifespan, including Stellar Giant Beasts. In such long time spans, civilizations like the Mechanical Civilization could have emerged thousands of times."

"And such galaxies."

"Exist in billions in the Star Sea."

"All numbers on a planet become extremely small when placed in the universe, so Train Captain you completely don’t have to worry, you’ll probably float in the universe for a lifetime, and even in your lifetime, it’s hard to find a second planet suitable for life."

"..."

Chen Mang said softly without expression: "Are you comforting me?"

"Yes."

"Thanks, but I don’t feel comforted, instead I feel more anxious."

"A little humor, theoretically it’s like this, but there are shortcuts available, such as a Rosen Bridge which is a wormhole, and through wormholes, the distance between two points can be greatly shortened, allowing one to travel tens of thousands of light years in a short time, similar to a Time Rift."

"Just like the ’Time Rift Detector’ accessory, in fact, it doesn’t have much usage space on a planet. Most times it’s used in space."

"A Time Rift isn’t a wormhole, right? Entering a Time Rift results in the flow inside greatly accelerating, leading to an unknown Adventure Map."

"Hmm, they’re two different things, but in the future surely there will also be a ’Wormhole Detector’."

"I’m also curious about a question. The train is a method of the Mechanical Civilization, capable of installing and upgrading different accessories to strengthen their train. Why choose trains instead of something like starships which seem more suitable for the universe?"

"Train Captain, I really want to answer all your questions, but you should know that the true strength of AI is the ability to quickly search huge databases for correct answers. Unfortunately, my database is really empty, empty-handed, it’s difficult to give the answer you want, can only offer you a guess, which is that the Mechanical Civilization must have tried many options before concluding on the train as the main choice."

"Or perhaps the train wasn’t the means created by the Mechanical Civilization, they’re just using it."

"There may be many possibilities, but in the end, it still must be Train Captain, for you to personally stand higher and see for yourself, to find the true answer, right?"

"..."

Chen Mang nodded after a long silence, said softly: "You make a good point, I’m going to sleep first, I must be steady, before entering the universe, I must build the Fixed Star Train to perfection, to feel safe."

"With global resources to support the Fixed Star, it should be enough."

"Like Noah’s Ark?"

"Exactly Noah’s Ark."

Chen Mang got up, quickly washed up, then lay down on the bed, placed his hands under his head, looked at the ceiling and said with a smile: "At the final moment of the planet’s collapse, take all humans from this planet. I want to carry forward Human Civilization, even in the vast, boundless universe with nowhere to land, having a group of people accompanying feels much more comforting."

"I want to build a human society on the Fixed Star Train."

"Quite a grand dream, just like Noah’s Ark."

"Yet not quite the same."

"How is it not the same."

"In Noah’s Ark, women left first. In my train, there are few women."

"That is a problem, without women, it’s hard to carry on a race."

"The main issue now is the train’s ecology is still an end-of-the-world ecology, it’s difficult to form a family inheritance like before Doomsday."

"Then it might regress to an earlier form."

"Such as?"

"Polyandry, just for inheritance."

"Let’s talk about this later, personally I’m not hoping to see this scenario happen."

"Many times, the evolution of civilization doesn’t change according to personal will, and what’s more, according to your vision Train Captain, managing the train will become very difficult and chaotic when there are more people later."