Endless route

Chapter 1 1. Way out

In 2023, Jinhuai Road, Fuen City.

In autumn, the streets look cold and dry. A few yellowed locust leaves fall leisurely and are piled in the corner of the old street, being basked in the sun and exuding a strange fragrance.

On the street, there was a pawn shop with its rolling shutter half open. A dozen packed boxes were piled at the door. The shop was filled with dust, and it overflowed into the street.

Cough...cough!

Zheng Yun ran out of the pawn shop with a broom, supported the old locust tree, took off his mask, and gasped for air. It was not until the fragrant air washed the dust out of his lungs that he felt relieved.

He stood under the tree with a gray face, and the gray and white mist on his body seemed to be floating out. A small flick of the broom made a big puff, and passers-by walked around him.

There is really no way.

From the time the shop opened until now, the blind spots behind several cabinets have probably not been swept once. The dust is thicker than the soles of shoes, and even a broom cannot sweep it away.

Ashes to ashes to dust.

Zheng Yun patted the soil and looked to the right side of the shop. There was a table for repairing mechanical watches. The place was always spotless and did not need to be cleaned.

The pawn shop has been open for forty years, but it has not done many serious transactions. Instead, it has been repairing and repairing watches for more than thirty years, and has built quite a reputation.

That’s it for now.

This will become a hot pot restaurant next month.

The weird and weird stuff in the business has long been posted on the Internet, everything that can be sold is sold, and everything that cannot be sold is collected together and returned to the basement to eat ashes.

Sell ​​it or not.

Not worth much money.

When he was a child, he had been visiting stores all year round, and he knew very well that if the pawn shop had a good business and received good things, it would not repair 30-year watches.

And he was reluctant to sell it. His adoptive father left nothing behind, not even a few photos. Only these old treasures that had been with him for decades were considered relics.

Buzz.

The phone suddenly vibrated.

Zheng Yun took out his cell phone and took a look. It was from his adoptive mother, saying that he would get off work early tonight, so he didn't need to go to the hospital and could go home after packing up the pawn shop.

I got it, Mom.

Zheng Yun replied with a voice message.

Adoptive father Jiang Jianguo passed away just six months ago, and sister Jiang Meng was hospitalized three months ago.

Jiang Meng is very ill.

The treatment cost millions.

In order to pay for the operation, the family was forced to sell iron and steel, and the shop was forced to be sold, but no one knew how long it would take for her to recover.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a trance. Flashbacks from the past often roll around in my mind. During the Chinese New Year, my family was reunited, and suddenly it became like this.

Misfortune never comes alone.

Zheng Yun took a deep breath and went back to sweep the floor. He swept the shop clean and moved the boxes to the car one by one. It was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

Hit the road in a pickup truck.

While waiting at the traffic light, Zheng Yun looked up and saw a huge planet occupying one-tenth of the sky floating above his head, glowing with dark blue color.

That is TRAPP-D, which is also a terrestrial planet. It looks very similar to his hometown Earth, but the atmosphere composition is not suitable for human habitation.

And people can’t get through.

There is no sea of ​​mist on that planet, and the route is impassable unless a manned rocket is used to fly up there.

If you need money urgently, you can only go overseas.

Go to other planets to find gold.

Zheng Yun held the steering wheel, tapping the plastic buttons with his fingers, looking down at the dazzling taillights of the car in front, thinking about the private work introduced by his college classmates.

The history of gold miners is very long.

They go to sea and travel to other planets through shipping routes, looking for anything valuable in inaccessible places. However, gold diggers have a very bad reputation. For money, they will do almost anything.

That's indeed what happened.

Whoever is not short of money goes out to sea to pan for gold, and one of them might die in various weird places.

The adoptive father's father's generation had four brothers, and they were basically all from that route. In the end, they couldn't even put together two whole corpses, and the coffins were all empty.

Last year, his adoptive father took him back to Earth to worship his ancestors. He even joked at the grave that the paper money was burned somewhere and that the ancestors had to fly back from outer space if they wanted to collect the money.

When Zheng Yun heard this, he choked for air. His hand shook and the wine bottle almost hit the ground.

If it doesn't work, go ahead.

After all, this is the Age of Discovery, and the fastest way to make money is to go to sea to pan for gold.

Zheng Yun didn't hesitate too much.

Jiang Meng still has to undergo surgery, and the next step is to sell the house, but in this old city built in the late Ming Dynasty, water, electricity and gas are all connected externally, so the price cannot be sold at a good price.

Housing prices are high enough, but whoever buys an old house now has to save money for a lifetime. If he wants to buy one, he must buy a new house. Buying an old house is not enough to even get married and start a family.

Nowadays, young people are thinking too much. If big cities are stressful, they can go to newly developed small towns on other planets. There are many planets on the endless route, and they can be easily traveled.

They are the only ones left who have to work at home and continue to work in big cities. Their work income is low and they cannot afford a new house. It is estimated that when they can no longer survive in the city where they live, when will the end come.

And he was worse off.

He was short of money, a lot of money.

The time when she was playing and playing with Jiang Meng when she was young seems like yesterday. How could the elder brother ignore her?

Back then, his adoptive parents took him home and treated him as their own for so many years. He was fed, drank, and dressed every bit as well as he could. Now it was his turn to take care of the family.

Although he is an adopted son, he is also a member of the old Jiang family. His adoptive father became ill and could not go to sea, and finally passed away. However, in the Jiang family, he went against the ancestral precepts.

The adoptive father disobeyed the ancestral precepts.

Return it for him yourself.

Living like a living dead every day in the city, you can see the head at a glance, there is no meaning in living, it is better to go out and fight hard for your family.

Go to sea, life or death is decided by God.

Zheng Yun raised his head again, looking at the blue star above his head, his thoughts wandering, and there was expectation deep in his eyes.

This is a magical world. Ever since Zheng He mistakenly entered the fog in the early Ming Dynasty, passed through the fog and entered an alien planet, history has officially entered a new chapter.

In 1405, Zheng He led his fleet to sea. On the way back, he encountered pirates who pretended to surrender. Ten thousand people killed five thousand thieves in a naval battle. The leader of the bandits, Chen Zuyi, fled to the East.

Zheng He pursued, deep into the Eastern Ocean, and there was a heavy fog on the sea. Through the fog in March, it suddenly became clear, and he saw: two red suns hanging in the sky, and the stars were changing and everything was in confusion.

This is a junior high school text.

It records the first large-scale entry of humans into the Sea of ​​Mist, with tens of thousands of people participating in this crossing.

Since then.

Humanity has entered the age of interstellar navigation.

The Misty Sea is located in the north-central Pacific Ocean, across the ocean from the right side of the Mariana Trench, covering an area of ​​4 million square kilometers, and is shaped like an inverted triangle.

Just go through the foggy sea.

You can enter an alien planet.

Although the historical records are strange and complicated, incredible events often occur, and both the East and the West have paid a bloody price in the process of exploration.

However, with the development of science and technology, the nature of the Sea of ​​Mist is gradually revealed. It is not an Eastern wonderland or a Western mystery, but a relic of an ancient civilization.

This ruins seamlessly connects the foggy sea on Earth's Pacific Ocean with the foggy seas on other planets light-years away.

The Pacific Ocean of Mist is V-shaped.

The next sea of ​​fog is the Λ shape.

After countless pieces of triangular fog seas are spliced ​​together, a fog canal similar to VΛVΛVΛV is finally formed.

When the ship passes through the hypotenuse of the Sea of ​​Fog from the inside, it will enter the next Sea of ​​Fog, and then sail south or north to escape the fog and enter the planet.

These planets have common characteristics. They all have oceans composed mainly of liquid water, and most of them have habitable atmospheres.

At this moment.

The planet he is on is the second planet on the west route of the Endless Passage. It is an astronomical distance of 120 light years from the earth.

The route number of this planet is W-02. It was named Xianfuzhou in ancient times and was renamed Dingyuan Star in modern times.

Fu'en City, where he is located, has a population of four million. It was a port city built by the Ming Empire in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. There are still a large number of Ming Dynasty ruins to this day.

Jiang Jianguo, his adoptive father, set out from the earth more than forty years ago and drifted on the West Route of the Endless Sea Route for more than half a month before he came here to open a pawn shop.

All in all, that's it.

An ancient civilization built a long canal across the endless starry sky countless years ago. With oceans and water as carriers and livable planets as ports, ships can be used to jump and sail across the vast galaxy - the wonder of civilization - the endless route.

Primitive wooden boards, ancient wooden ships and sailing ships, modern steam or gas engine ships, and modern nuclear-powered ships can all be sailed in it.

Earth is just one stop.

It completely changed the course of the times six hundred years ago, and opened a new era of human civilization in the fifteenth century - the interstellar version of the Age of Discovery.

The sea is the solution to all difficulties.

Going to sea is the hope of all down-and-out people.

From ancient times to the present, from shipwrecks, pirates, treasures to porcelain, gold mining, slaves, to oil, minerals, and seaports, how many people have relied on shipping to make a fortune.

Until now.

Those legends still circulate on the sea.

Waves come one after another and never stop. People in the new era have difficulties in the new era, and young people have the same frustrations as young people, but hope has never changed.

As long as he is lucky enough, he can earn enough treatment fees by going to sea a few times to treat Jiang Meng...

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