Die on Mars - Chapter 221

c221 Day 327 (7) In another universe with

The old cat raised the manuscript paper in his hand and sat back. It was obvious that Tang Yue was proud of being a manure maker. He was the only creature on this desolate planet that had the ability to quickly produce organic fertilizer. For this reason, Although his importance was incomparable, Tang Yue finally found an area where he could completely surpass the old cat – in defecation.

But Lao Mao didn’t want to compete with Tang Yue in such a boring field. Unless the latter’s stool could evenly cover the entire Ixi Plain, it would be meaningless in terms of environment and ecology.

Tang Yue took out a biscuit from the cabinet, poured a small glass of water, walked around behind the old cat, and bent down to look at his screen.

“What is this?” Tang Yue pointed to the picture on the screen, which was a blurry patch of brown and black. He couldn’t tell what it was. “Remotely sensed picture of the surface of Mars?”

“No.” The old cat shook his head, “It’s something more beautiful.”

“What?”

The old cat drags the mouse to zoom in and out of the picture.

Tang Yue saw it clearly this time. It was an enchanting ocelot, lying on its side on a boulder and looking back.

“How long has it been and you are still looking at this kind of thing? Aren’t you refining the docking plan? Aren’t you doing calculations?” Tang Yue was stunned, “Actually, you have been looking at the little female cat?”

“This is a male ocelot.”

“It’s actually a male cat!” Tang Yue was almost heartbroken.

“What are you talking about? This is just a screen saver for my computer monitor. The picture is from National Geographic Magazine. The workstation is performing background calculations.” The old cat tapped the keyboard casually, and a full screen of numbers and charts flashed out, ” But this work is very difficult. I designed many plans, but they were overturned during the feasibility study stage… I have to say that this is really the most difficult wedding in human history, the most difficult one hundred kilometers to cross.”

Tang Yue sat down with his lunch, opened the vacuum packaging of the biscuits, and took a small bite.

“Girl, have you eaten?”

“I ate a little.” Maidong replied, “I’m not too hungry.”

“Where’s the oxygen and fresh water?”

“The oxygen can still last for 280 hours, and there is still enough fresh water.” Maidong said, “You don’t have to worry about me. I can definitely hold on until the Tianzhou spacecraft arrives.”

When she said this, the United Space Station was passing over the surface of Mars, and dazzling sunlight burst from the horizon behind her. It was dawn again, but in half an hour, the sun would set.

In low-Earth orbit, dawn is always chasing dusk. As the height of the space station decreases, dawn finally catches the tail of dusk.

“Tang Yue, tell me, do you believe in the existence of parallel universes?”

“Parallel universe?”

“Hmm, I read “The Universe in a Nutshell” and “A Brief History of Time” written by Mr. Stephen Hawking a long time ago. The book said that there may be more than one universe. There are many parallel universes in this world. Some of them are parallel to each other. The universe may be very similar.” Maidong said, “Do you think there is a universe in which the earth has not disappeared?”

Tang Yue took a bite of the biscuit. No one knows whether parallel universes exist, let alone prove them. Of course, they cannot be falsified.

“I think there is.”

Anyway, it’s just nonsense without theoretical basis, so it’s better to be more romantic.

If the earth was really shot into a candied haws by some alien civilization, is there a situation in other universes where this shot went wrong? The muzzle of the gun deviated from the original angle by several microseconds, so the bullet missed the earth.

Tang Yue then thought further, since there is a universe where the earth is intact, then the following situation must also exist:

One shot destroyed a quarter of the Earth’s universe.

One shot exploded half of the Earth’s universe.

One shot destroyed three-quarters of the Earth’s universe.

At the same time, the earth was exploded an infinite number of times in an infinite universe, and Tang Yue and Maidong were in a universe where the earth was completely exploded among the infinite universes.

“If there really is a universe in which the Earth is intact, then in that universe, we should have returned to Earth.” Maidong said.

“Yes.” Tang Yue nodded, “We will go back to our respective homes to find our respective mothers.”

If the earth does not disappear, then the relationship between Tang Yue and Maidong will end at the end of the Mars mission.

“No, no, we can push the time back a little further – assuming that parallel universes are born from choices. For example, if you want to get the water glass in front of you now, and you use your right hand, then the universe will split at this moment, and another one will appear. A universe, the cup you hold with your left hand in that universe.” Maidong shook his head, “Every choice you make will give birth to many, many parallel universes… Then there will always be such a universe, and in that universe we will meet again Meet.”

Tang Yue was startled.

“I was born in Guangzhou, Tang Yue, where were you born?”

“Hefei, Anhui.”

“Okay, then I’m in Guangzhou and you’re in Hefei.” Maidong stretched out his finger and pointed it in the air, as if it were pointing on an invisible map. One is in Guangzhou and the other is in Hefei. The two cities are a thousand years apart. Two hundred kilometers away, “Then… I am in primary school in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou. Where are you at this time?”

Tang Yue tried to remember, “Luyang District.”

“When I was in primary school in Yuexiu, you were in primary school in Luyang District, Hefei City. We were both primary school students, carrying schoolbags to and from school every day. You didn’t know me, and I had never met you. We were strangers.” Maidong smiled. , “Later after I graduated from elementary school, I went to Hua Fu in middle school.”

“I was in Hefei No. 45 Middle School at that time, and I was one level higher than you.”

“So we are all middle school students now. Have you ever traveled far away when you were in middle school?” Maidong asked, “Have you ever been to Guangzhou?”

“Been to Sanya.”

“I have been to Qingdao, Tang Yue. Do you believe that we may have passed each other?”

Tang Yue was stunned. He didn’t know which year or day he went to Qingdao with Ophiopogon japonicus. But he went north from Guangzhou to Qingdao, and he went south to Sanya. Who knew if they were on the same railway on the same day? Tang Yue recalled that when he was young, he was sitting on a chair on the high-speed train, lying on the glass window curiously and looking out. The white high-speed train came from the opposite direction, whizzing past. In the opposite carriage, would there be something wrong? There is also a young girl lying on the window looking at him?

“After the college entrance examination, my first choice was Zhejiang University.” Maidong said.

“I also applied for Zhejiang University, but unfortunately I didn’t get into it.”

“There must be a universe where he listened carefully to every class you slept in, completed every assignment you failed to complete, and got every question you got wrong right. Then I successfully entered Zhejiang University,” Maidong said.

“Then the possibility is too low.” Tang Yue smiled.

“But it’s still there.”

Of course it does exist. Life is an infinitely extending binary tree. You can always find a way to where you want to go.

Tang Yue couldn’t help but daydream that his encounter with Maidong could be a completely different story in another universe… They didn’t even have to be astronauts participating in the Mars mission. He could be a senior welcoming the new students, standing at the gate of the college. After receiving the information that the short-haired girl hurriedly handed over, he could also be a senior in the club, handing out flyers to the confused first-year girls at the Hundred Regiment Battle, then patting her on the shoulder and saying welcome to join, he could even One afternoon when there was no class, I went out for a walk, looking around without looking at the road, and bumped into a person of unknown gender who was carrying a schoolbag and covering his head tightly.

“Don’t you have eyes when you walk?”

“Obviously you hit me first!”

The sky wind blew through the catkins, revealing a pair of bright hazel eyes under the short black hair.

Traveling through a vast sea of ​​1.5 billion people, a far distance of more than a thousand kilometers, and hundreds of millions of crossroads, there will always be a Tang Yue and an Ophiopogon japonicus, who have made all the right choices and meet again in a certain universe. .