Chapter 1: The Sky’s Giant Bronze Coffin (1/2)

Life is the greatest miracle of the world.

Four sides, up and down, light and dark, that is the universe. The universe has its reality, it also has no bounds. From the ancient, to the universe today: Although the universe continues to increase, it’s origin is still unknown.

The vast universe, the boundless skies, scientists speculate that earth may be the only world with life. Humans are actually quite lonely.

In the distant horizon of the universe, although there are millions and millions of stars, it is difficult to seek the origin or source of the star.

Only humanity has yet to give up exploring. Since the last century multiple spacecraft has been launched to the outer space.

Voyager 2 is an unmanned spacecraft, launched on the year 1997 at the Kennedy Space Center Launch.

It carried a gold-plated encryption “Tribute to the Universe”, within it contained popular music and 55 recorded languages, which one day, may encounter extraterrestrial lifeforms.

From the 70’s of the last century to the present, Voyager 2 has been travelling alone, in the boundless universe it seems like a speck of dust.

Contemporary space probes, for the greater part usually breakdown, perhaps connection may also have been broken, forever drifting away in the universe.

After more than 30 years, technology continues to evolve, humanity already has created more advanced space probes, perhaps in the future the development will finally benefit the exploration of stars.

Even so, for a considerable amount of time, the newer space probes are still unable to catch up to the distance of Voyager 2.

33 years later, Voyager 2 has already overcome a distance of 14 billion km away from Earth.

At the moment, it has reached the third cosmic velocity, orbit can no longer guide back to our solar system, finally, it has become an interstellar spaceship.

In the dark and cold universe, stars are like dots, diamonds glittering in the horizon.

Voyager 2 is now moving in top speed, but in the cold expanse of the universe, it is but an ant crawling in the dark earth.

After more than 30 years, at this very moment, Voyager 2 discovers something astonishing.

In the dried-up lonely universe, a large unmoving entity which looks like a corpse is seen.

On May 22, 2010, United States’ NASA receives the hard to decipher transmission from Voyager 2

At NASA, they observe the transmission motionlessly. They see a carving of some sort that leaves them dumbfounded.

People stared at the image for a long time, then the main control room erupted with voices/

“God, What did I just see?”

“How can this be? I can’t believe it!”

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Voyager 2 now unable to receive commands, after it sends the transmissions, then continues to move towards the darkness and more stars.

Due to the distance of Voyager 2, even with the important discovery, aside from the picture, humankind are powerless to do anything.