Voyager 1, a Lonely Pilgrimage

Story summary: In November 2026, Voyager 1 arrived at a position one light-day away from the Earth. In order to fulfill the last wish of his late mentor Lin Zhe, Chen Mo, a college physics teacher, took his scientific research assistant, the humanoid robot Xiaoshuo, on National Highway 318 to Kailash. During the journey, Xiaoshuo learned to speak "beauty" at Zheduo Mountain. For the first time at Ranwu Lake, he was unable to classify the scene in front of him. At the Potala Palace, he asked "whether running out of battery equals death." A falling rock at the 72nd bend of the Nu River damaged its left arm and solar panel, and its charging efficiency plummeted to 17%, but it refused to turn back. After arriving at Kailash, Xiaoshuo's visual system had a "data overflow" in front of the geometric structure of the sacred mountain. It asked to stay and continue to observe, and then walked into the depths of the wind and snow wearing a white robe. Chen Mo returned alone, and when he looked up at the stars, he realized that if the golden record carried by Voyager 1 fell onto a lower-civilized planet, humans would become the "gods" that catalyze the leap in wisdom - the ultimate meaning of pilgrimage is to turn oneself into a seed.