Chapter 1

Through the electronic camera equipment on the spacecraft, Xiao Yu witnessed the entire process of Earth's destruction.

Just a moment ago, a super explosion occurred at the core of the Earth. This explosion shattered the Earth into pieces, and the powerful explosive energy accelerated the Moon's speed to 137 kilometers per second. According to estimates, the Moon would directly fly out of the solar system and become a rogue planet.

A vast asteroid belt would appear in the original Earth's orbit, and at the same time, the entire solar system would turn into a cosmic pinball arena. It was estimated that over the next few million years, all the major planets in the solar system would be continuously bombarded by debris from Earth.

Countless observation data were transmitted to Xiao Yu's brain. Xiao Yu sighed and accelerated the spacecraft to its maximum speed, fleeing out of the solar system.

In fact, ten years before the disaster, as the most outstanding scientist of humanity, holding doctoral degrees in over twenty disciplines including theoretical physics, high-energy physics, astrophysics, materials science, mechanical engineering, astronomy, chemistry, and computer science, and having won over twenty Nobel Prizes, Xiao Yu had already noticed these signs. Unfortunately, his warnings were ignored by human society and ridiculed by his peers. Everyone thought Xiao Yu was crazy, and one scientist even shouted to the media, "I don't know what evidence Xiao Yu based his conclusion on. Was it a dream he had last night? The Earth will be destroyed? It's a joke, even a kindergartener knows that the Earth will continue to exist safely!"

Xiao Yu smiled bitterly and realized, "Even if human society accepted the warning, with the current level of technology, there would be no way to prevent the destruction. It would be better to let humanity live out their last happy moments rather than live in despair."

Thus, Xiao Yu withdrew from the scientific community and accumulated a huge fortune in the first two years, becoming the world's richest person. Then he began his own plan.

Relying on his scientific knowledge, which was at least twenty years ahead of human society, Xiao Yu spent eight years building the first true interstellar spacecraft. It was assembled in geostationary orbit. Then, from the ground control center, using the equipment he created, he separated his soul and sent it to the main computer of the spacecraft, merging with it. Without hesitation, he accelerated, breaking free from Earth's gravity and fleeing into outer space.

Xiao Yu had already verified that human consciousness, or the soul, could exist eternally under certain conditions. Moreover, discarding the physical body and merging the spirit with the computer had another advantage: it saved the massive mass and space occupied by the life support system, and the reserves of food and water could be reduced to almost negligible levels.

This was the entire process.

"Seems like I'm the last human in the universe," the current situation left Xiao Yu speechless. "No, in a purely spiritual state, I can't even be considered a human."

"However, having such immense computational power, infinite energy, and infinite lifespan feels great." Xiao Yu carefully felt every detail of his new body and sighed.

Xiao Yu's new body was thirty meters long, twenty meters wide, and about five meters high. The spacecraft was divided into several areas, including material storage, material processing, scientific laboratories, equipment manufacturing, the main control room, and maintenance passages. A highly sophisticated robot was responsible for the daily maintenance of the entire spacecraft.

In the vast starry sky, a small spacecraft was rapidly advancing, traveling at a speed of about 33 kilometers per second. Even so, it would take about 200 days to reach the nearest gas giant, Jupiter.

Indeed, Xiao Yu's first destination in his space journey was Jupiter. Because Jupiter had nearly infinite nuclear fuel. Although Xiao Yu chose chemical fuel for his spacecraft due to various reasons, he would undoubtedly upgrade the propulsion system to nuclear power once he developed controlled nuclear fusion.

Through the astronomical telescope, the direction of Earth had already turned into a vast light curtain. Xiao Yu knew that it was the seawater on Earth being evaporated by the sun, forming something similar to a comet's tail. These would gradually be stripped away and scattered into the vast universe, a process that might last for millions of years.

The countless fragments formed by Earth's explosion would, over time, some rush towards the sun, some rush into outer space, and others would gradually merge through collisions, eventually forming a new planet, though much smaller in mass.

"Ah," Xiao Yu sighed silently in his heart. Watching his home disintegrate and thinking of the 7 billion humans who died instantly, Xiao Yu felt very distressed.

"Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to save them... However, this explosion seems a bit strange... It's as if some strange external force is controlling it." Xiao Yu used his immense computational power to make some logical deductions but got no results, so he had to give up on this idea.

"Vast universe, where is home?" Xiao Yu felt a bit disheartened. But he quickly adjusted his mood: "With my current computational power, my technological development speed can match that of all of humanity, and this speed will accelerate even more with new materials and the creation of more powerful computers. So, let's begin exploring the infinite mysteries of the universe!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Yu felt encouraged again.

At this moment, a light point in the direction of Earth caught Xiao Yu's attention.

The astronomical telescope on the spacecraft immediately adjusted to the appropriate angle and focused on the light point.

This light point was quite large, and it wasn't too far away. So Xiao Yu easily determined the mass of this celestial body.

"It's the Moon... Hmm... Something's not right." A bad feeling flashed through Xiao Yu's mind. He immediately input the orbital parameters, mass parameters, speed parameters, and orbital eccentricity of the planets in the solar system into a formula. The powerful computational power quickly produced the result.

"How could it be so coincidental? How could it be so coincidental? How could it just happen to collide? At the Moon's current speed, it should have just grazed Jupiter and flown into outer space! How could its orbit just happen to overlap?"

"Damn... Is the universe playing with me? Is this trying to kill me?" Xiao Yu stared at the result, cursing in his heart.

"Universe, do I really have to witness the most spectacular collision in the history of the solar system?"

Xiao Yu called out helplessly.

The calculation results clearly told him that at the Moon's current speed, in about 50 days, the Moon would directly collide head-on with... the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter.

Generally, such a collision between celestial bodies of this magnitude is unlikely. The most likely scenario is that Jupiter would capture the Moon as its satellite, and the orbit would gradually shrink. Once it exceeded the Roche limit, the Moon would be torn apart into several pieces, which would then collide with Jupiter one by one.

When the collision occurs, it might be tens of thousands of years later. But the Moon's orbit just happens to be on a direct collision course.

"My technology and equipment are still in the early stages. How can I possibly survive such a spectacular cosmic collision?" Xiao Yu cried out in despair.

Seventy million years ago, the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs was only about 10 kilometers in diameter. The Moon's diameter? Over 3,400 kilometers!

Jupiter's diameter is over 140,000 kilometers! When the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet hit Jupiter, each fragment was only about 2 kilometers in diameter, yet the total energy released was over 40 trillion tons of TNT! The Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet fragments were traveling at 21,000 kilometers per hour, while the Moon is now traveling at over 400,000 kilometers per hour.

How much energy would such a collision release? Xiao Yu didn't dare to calculate it. But he was certain that the material ejected and the radiation burst would sweep across the entire solar system, dispersing the asteroid belt and completely disrupting the new asteroid belt in the original Earth's orbit. A significant portion of the mass would likely collide with the sun. If the fragments were large enough, they could even break through the sun's convection layer, causing a large amount of solar material to be ejected, accelerating the sun's aging process.

In other words, this collision could potentially destroy the entire solar system. Even if it doesn't, the solar system would become a hellish existence.

Xiao Yu was increasingly suspicious that the destruction of Earth was the result of some hidden energy calculations, otherwise, things wouldn't be so coincidental.

"Damn, I need to find a way to avoid the most intense phase of the collision. If I get hit by the radiation burst, with my current material technology, the entire spacecraft would be instantly melted, even at a distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers."

While Xiao Yu was secretly alarmed, his immense computational power began to work at full capacity.

The central computer, designed and built by Xiao Yu himself, with technology at least twenty years ahead of human society, had computational power almost equivalent to the fastest supercomputer on Earth, the Tianhe-2, but with energy consumption only a fraction of it.

In an instant, countless orbital parameters, speed parameters, and other data were processed, and numerous indicator lights began to flash rapidly. It took Xiao Yu a full half hour to regain his composure.

"Only this can be done... Yes, there's about a 50% chance of safely passing through the initial phase of the most intense collision, but my energy reserves are insufficient." Xiao Yu silently lamented.

"Change course towards Mars, expected to reach Mars' orbit in 20 days, then maintain position behind Mars, using Mars as a shield. This should help me survive this disaster. Then... I can't go to Jupiter, so I'll go to Saturn. Titan should be good, with its large reserves of methane, which can be used as fuel. The problem is the oxidizer; without it, methane can't burn. But I'll deal with it step by step; I'm about to die anyway."

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