With all 32 main engines at the rear of the Forward spacecraft running at full power, it was nighttime in Xia Country.
At that moment, anyone standing outside and looking up could see a huge star.
That was the Forward spacecraft, breaking free of Blue Star's gravity.
Mo Jingchun lay on the sofa at home, watching a view of the Forward spacecraft on the TV that no one else could see.
The footage had been captured in real time by one of Candy Technology's own satellites.
The Forward might have been accelerating quickly now, but once it reached a certain speed, it could no longer gain much more.
In theory, as long as the thrust was strong enough, any object could keep accelerating until it approached the speed of light.
But the gap between theory and reality was often an impassable chasm.
According to the two basic principles of special relativity—the constancy of the speed of light and the principle of relativity—
the faster an object moved, the greater its mass became.
For a more practical example, consider particle accelerators. Without taking special relativity into account, particles in a cyclotron could theoretically accelerate to infinite speed. But in practice, that was impossible: they could never reach the speed of light.
Watching the enlarged washing-machine drum, glowing blue, plunge headfirst into the dark universe, Mo Jingchun felt genuine admiration for every crew member aboard the Forward.
To this day, humanity had yet to master Hibernation Technology. Every crew member understood what that meant.
They would not only die, but die along the way.
For the people of Xia Country, the chance of their souls returning to their homeland was almost nonexistent.
Unless human technology made a major breakthrough in the future, making Interstellar Travel commonplace, humanity might be able to use