As the system's introduction went deeper, Chen Cheng's brow furrowed tighter and tighter.
"By the twenty-first century of the Ancient Era, humanity of the Solar System had overcome a series of difficult problems and finally advanced from a planetary civilization to a stellar civilization."
As time passed, Chen Cheng also heard of what had happened after his death in his previous life.
About a thousand years later, Earth's civilization finally left the Solar System. The Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt became inner ports for interstellar voyages.
By the time nearly ten thousand years had passed, humanity's excessive exploitation of the Solar System—especially its extraction of the Sun's power—had directly caused the Sun to enter old age ahead of time.
The solar wind became extremely unstable. Sometimes Earth's magnetic field could block it, but at other times it directly punched through the magnetic shield, bringing terrifying extinction-level disasters to Earth.
"I trust there is no need to explain the solar wind and the aging and extinction of a star to you. At that time, the entirety of human civilization stood on the brink of destruction."
"According to you, then all humans should have fled aboard interstellar spacecraft. With their technology at the time, they seemingly couldn't control a star on the verge of catastrophic destruction."
Melinda spoke up quickly.
Yet the robot shook its head.
"No. Although they were capable of interstellar travel then, their travel speed was still far too slow compared to the scale of a stellar system.
Their spacecraft could leave the Solar System, but they could not escape to a safe location before the Sun completely expanded and erupted.
More likely, their descendants would have been swept by the super-particle winds unleashed by the star's extinction into nothing more than a speck of cosmic dust while fleeing."