"Hey, a lot of things happened today, so much that I even suspected that I was dreaming. I suddenly felt envious of your life. Well, I'm not very good at joking."

Silence... as quiet as if the universe had truly become a complete vacuum.

The girl's voice was never heard from the little expert, and Arthur was tormented by all the strange things that happened that day and had a headache.

He fell on the bed and quickly fell into a drowsy state.

At this time, a weak voice came from its ears, as if a terminally ill person was pouring out his nostalgia for life.

from afar

from dusk and morning,

…

The good wind from the twelve high heavens blows gently,

The breath of life drifts:

Blow on me.

…

…

…

Arthur responded to the girl's voice while half asleep, "Is this... a poem?"

"Yes, I fell asleep again just now. Where have you been?"

"The whole day today...how to put it, you may not be able to imagine that my mother, the woman who gave birth to me, the person who gave me life, was taken away by the guards earlier today. , I was also taken to a strange place by several strangers, as if something terrible had happened in our world."

"For example?" the girl asked, her voice still weak.

"For example, an upcoming mass extinction. Life has experienced several mass extinctions while on earth."

"A mass extinction...will all life die during that time?"

"That's right."

The girl went from sadness to silence, and then whispered: "Can you tell me what it's like?"

Arthur hesitated and said: "About 500 million years ago, the earth entered the Cambrian period. The increase in oxygen levels and the readiness of multi-cellular organisms prepared for the explosion of life. In the Cambrian period, life Before the big explosion, the form of life was extremely simple, but everything soon changed.

In the next 200 million years, life moved from the sea floor to the land. At that time, the earth was no longer completely covered by the ocean, and the types of organisms increased dramatically, and the number also increased unprecedentedly."

"What happened next?" The girl's voice became weaker and weaker.

Arthur didn't notice that she was already talking to him reluctantly.

The girl urged: "What happened next?" as if she was eager to understand what happened to the mass extinction of organisms.

"First there was a biological explosion, and then there was a biological mass extinction. When it happened, there would be a large-scale mass extinction of organisms, also called biological extinction.

Entire families, orders and even classes of organisms completely disappeared in a very short period of time or only a handful of them survived.

In the process of mass extinction, often all species in the entire taxonomic unit are not spared.

No matter what their status in the ecosystem is, they cannot escape disaster, and often many different groups of organisms become extinct at the same time.

Are you...still listening?"

"exist……

I want to ask, is it possible, I mean, that as far as you know, there is any life that survived?"

Arthur breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "But there are always some lucky survivors.

There are also taxa that were reborn during the mass extinction and have flourished since then.

Large-scale mass extinctions have a certain periodicity, occurring about once every 62 million years, and usually have a greater impact on animals, while mass extinctions of terrestrial plants are not as significant as animals."

"Could it be that...I actually live in a...I mean, could it be that I..."

"What's wrong with you? Did I say something wrong?"

"Your words made me understand something."

Arthur guessed the girl was crying, if she could cry.

"What is it?"

"It's loneliness." After the girl said it, Arthur heard the breaking sound again, as if he pressed a button and the whole world knew that she was gone.

"No, no, please talk to me, please tell me you can hear me."

…

…

…

Terrifying silence. What is even more terrifying than silence is that there are people waiting for the sound.

"It's okay, I'm okay."

When the girl's voice appeared again, Arthur jumped nervously and hit his head on the top of the rest cabin.

"What's wrong with you? What was that sound just now?"

"No, it's nothing... By the way, maybe you just haven't found your kind. Maybe you can tell me more about you. We have been chatting for so long, but I actually know nothing about you."

"My situation?" The girl was confused.

Arthur felt that all this was normal, "What is your world like? You must be somewhere. In theory, you should be on a certain planet. Have I told you? What you heard from me

Judging from your voice, it’s like..."

Although Arthur told himself countless times, this was impossible, not even possible.

"Like what?"

"It's like you are right next to me..."

The girl smiled and said: "Forget it, you are making me happy, how could I be by your side. I...today...is the first time I discovered the fact that I am lonely."

Arthur realized that he had planted loneliness in the girl's heart.

He was sorry and even painful about it.

No one likes the feeling of loneliness, no one will like it.

"Listen to me, hey, maybe you haven't found it yet. I really... thought you and I were on the same orbit at the beginning, that's why I could receive your voice so clearly.

But strangely enough, I believe no one hears you but me, and that bothers me.

For a long time, I suspected that you were a figment of my mind, like many children do with an imaginary friend."

"Am I?"

"Maybe... no... I believe more and more that you are not, that you are not a figment of my imagination. If you are not real, then how could I lose you?

During this time in the aerospace school, I can only leave you a message, hoping that you can hear my voice, but because of the disabled little expert, I can't hear your voice, not a word, a sentence... I can't hear anything.

."

"what does that mean?"

"This means that you do not exist in my imagination, and the paintings I drew based on your description are not from my imagination. They are your world."

The girl lost her voice again. After a long time, she suddenly said cheerfully: "It turns out that I really exist. My loneliness seems to be getting better."

Arthur was also happy, "Yes, you are not, you are definitely not an imaginary friend."

"What is the little expert you are talking about?"

Arthur quickly explained that it was an intelligent system owned by everyone on the spacecraft.

"By the way, what are you talking to me through?

Is there any communication equipment or anything like that?”

"I……"

"Since you are definitely not the voice I imagined, it means that you must be somewhere in the universe, maybe the planet closest to me. I can think of a way to know your location."

"I..." The girl didn't know how to answer.

Arthur has become completely excited and motivated. Yes, she is real. Since it is real, there must be a place for her in the universe.
Chapter completed!