On all decks of the Orion guided missile cruiser, the announcements from the ship's command headquarters echoed in the corridors, in the mess hall, in the bars, in the toilets, and above the heads of every crew member.
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Good evening, crew members of the USS Orion guided missile cruiser, I am Zhao Tianhe, your captain."
"I'm sorry to disturb your rest at this time, but please give me ten minutes to listen to this broadcast patiently."
"I believe you have noticed that our spaceship encountered an unprecedented situation when entering the hyperspace channel, and stopped at the rift in time and space for unknown reasons..."
"In order to get out of the current predicament, and for the future of human civilization..." "We must unite!"
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During the broadcast, the captain of the Orion guided missile cruiser Zhao Tianhe confessed what happened to all the crew members on the ship and explained the combat plan jointly formulated by the first, third and fifth departments.
The operation was codenamed "Dawn".
They will disguise themselves as the corpses of friendly forces, remain silent in the deep ocean-like outer space, in order to deceive observers, and spend two centuries of history out of everyone's sight until their timeline
Coincides with the child from Wasteland Era 215.
This broadcast, sent by Zhao Tianhe himself, caused quite a commotion on the cruiser.
Not only because the identity of the "time traveler" of the young man named Ye Shi was "officially" recognized, but also because they learned about what happened to the Gemini on the radio.
Without knowing it, they became the executioners who killed friendly troops... In the mess hall on the lower deck, a group of red-faced and thick-necked crew members were arguing loudly.
A man with a beard slammed his fist on the table and shouted with undisguised anger. "This is ridiculous... We launched neutron torpedoes at them just because of suspicion?!"
Xiao Yong, who was sitting opposite him with his arms folded, was silent for a long time before finally speaking.
"I think our captain is right. It is impossible for us to execute the plan called 'Final Battle'. Conflict will happen sooner or later. Maybe even the moment we refuse to execute the order, the torpedoes of the Gemini will be destroyed."
It’s already aimed at us.”
The man with the beard stared at him angrily.
"Where's the evidence? Because of your mouth?"
"There is no such thing," Xiao Yong shook his head and looked at the man without hesitation, "This is space, outer space, and the dead have no say. I am not afraid, I would even rather die on that ship
The people on the ship are me, but the things under my feet must not be handed over to them. There are my family members on the earth...so they must die."
"You guy..."
The two were about to start a fight, but they were pulled away by colleagues next to them.
Looking at the people arguing endlessly about the Gemini, Lin Youyou, who was sitting in a corner of the cafeteria, couldn't help but feel a touch of sadness on his face.
She couldn't agree with what Xiao Yong said, nor the decision of the captain and her colleagues, even though they might be right.
They were comrades who had fought side by side with them, and they were also the few remaining survivors of that war.
If everyone expresses their demands in such a fierce way, even if they are lucky enough to survive this momentary crisis, they will definitely lose everything in the next big gamble one day in the future. Perhaps they are now trapped in hyperspace.
The situation in the passage was the punishment of fate for them. She looked at Ye Shi who was eating silently beside her, and couldn't help but ask.
"Do you think we did the right thing?" she wanted to know what history would say about them.
Stopping the chopsticks in his hands, Ye Shi was silent for a while and replied.
"I don't know, in the history I know...it was you who bombed us, but who knows? There is a long list of things we don't know, including the orbital airborne division, the formation of the post-war reconstruction committee, etc.
Wait... For us, the disintegration of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee is far enough away, and you are still before they were born."
Looking at the "young and mature" appearance, Lin Youyou couldn't help but feel a little distressed. She wanted to reach out and touch the child's head, but she quickly thought that he didn't like being treated as a child, so she took her hand back.
"What you said is your evaluation. What I want to know is actually your evaluation."
"Me?" Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, and then said after thinking seriously for a while, "I might be inclined to agree with your approach."
"Why?" Lin Youyou couldn't help but ask, "I have killed more than 3,000 people.\n.\n.\n.\n.\nThey are still our own comrades."
"Maybe it's because I live in an era where if I don't kill one person, I have to kill ten thousand people?" Ye Shi shrugged, "If you think about it from another perspective, you just saved a planet."
This is actually a comforting statement, and he himself doesn't know how to evaluate this matter.
From the perspective of the shelter residents, it seems that only those who failed to enter the shelter died, and the residents of the shelter were hardly affected.
Even most of the people they rescued died in the end, and died in pain from long-term torture, and passed the pain they felt to their next generation.
Then those who survived became the original Wastelanders.
From this perspective, the plan called "The End War" may not be a merciful choice. Without the Wastelanders, the Enlightenment Society would probably not appear, including the Torch Church, Celestial Beings, etc...
However, in contrast, the post-war reconstruction committee will probably disappear, including Stone City, Singularity City, and other seeds sown in the wasteland by the former.
That would be a future made entirely of Vault Dwellers.
They will probably rebuild a new human union in the wasteland according to the original idea of the "Ark Project" and in full accordance with the standards planned long ago.
It's hard to compare which future is better. But if he had to choose...
"I think you did a good job...don't blame yourself too much."
Looking at Ye Shi who was starting to eat again, Lin Youyou was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses and teased, "It makes you comfort me."
Chewing the food in his mouth, Ye Shi said slowly.
"The first sentence is true, but the last sentence is sincere." "I didn't expect you to care about others."
Looking at this interesting young man, Lin Youyou rested her chin on the back of her hand, and suddenly said with a smile, "Speaking of which, is that little girl named Jiang Xuezhou your girlfriend?"
Ye Shi almost choked on the rice in her mouth, blushed and coughed.
"What weird things are you talking about? How could I be with... In short, we are not in that kind of relationship, we are teammates." Looking at the anxious young man, Lin Youyou couldn't help but snorted, and patted him with a smile.
Back. "Haha, don't be nervous. In our era, it's not surprising to have further relationships with teammates. Is it a taboo in your area? If so, I don't mean to offend, I'm just a little curious.
How will people get along two hundred years from now... I mean emotionally."
She is quite honest about her tendency to gossip.
"I don't know. Just ask Fang Chang, he knows more." Ye Shi made a fool of himself and started cooking rice faster.
"Really? But I'm more curious about the girl named Jiang Xuezhou," Lin Youyou smiled and said in a joking tone, "If I can live to be 200 years later, can you introduce me to her?"
"Okay..." Ye Shi replied vaguely.
If they really meet each other in 200 years, this guy won't need to tell them, he will take the initiative to show them around and show off his legendary experience.
Lin Youyou didn't know what he was thinking, but she remembered these words, smiled and said, "Then it's settled."
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Although the tragic experience of the Gemini shocked the three thousand officers and soldiers on the ship, fortunately the commotion did not last long, and most people adjusted themselves within a day or even half a day.
This is not because they are cold-blooded.
It's because the crew members on the ship know very well that their captain is right. That is, at least for now, they must unite.
This is not only to save themselves, but also to save people in the future, and the child who accidentally broke into their timeline and was trapped here with them.
Even if it is to bring the captain who ordered the destruction of friendly forces to justice earlier, they must unite to overcome the current difficulties.
With the same belief, both those who supported Zhao Tianhe and those who opposed him put aside their disputes at this moment. And the plan code-named "Dawn" entered the implementation stage from the initial mobilization.
Engineers from the fourth department released repair robots and made a series of improvements to the outside of the hull, including the painting.
They must first disguise themselves as the Gemini, become the surviving party, and after leaving the hyperspace channel, communicate with the Lagrange Space Station as the Orion and leave records.
Then, there is the development of intelligent life called "Heaven". Even if it is a fake intelligent life, it doesn't matter——
They need to let "observers" from the future witness the birth of "celestial beings" with their own eyes!
Although to be honest, Ye Shi didn't have much hope for this whimsical plan, he was indeed moved by these people's determination and self-sacrifice.
According to normal logic, as a person who appeared on this ship inexplicably, and this ship happened to be stuck in the hyperspace channel, he would not be surprised if someone proposed to kill him.
However, no one did this.
So far from being hostile to him or rejecting him, they actually cared about his injury and greeted him with greetings. Regardless of whether the crew believed what he said or not, they did treat him as a living person.
Ye Shi asked himself, he himself is not so noble.
Remaining calm in the face of desperate situations and not letting out the evil in human nature is already a superb performance of his. It is precisely because they have done things that he cannot do that he is so touched in his heart. He is a person who compares his feelings with his own.
people.
He will treat others how others treat him. Therefore, even if he knows that all this is just the plot of the game, it is difficult for him to treat the people here completely as NPCs.
They are more like his friends.
In other words, they are his friends. He wants to help them get out of this maze - in order to meet again two hundred years later!
Ye Shi tried his best to recall all the details about Tianren, and told the staff of the "Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Department" without reservation.
As the "ten departments" of this starship, although this department is the last department in the sequence of all departments on the entire starship, it is much more useful than the five departments at the beginning of the sequence.
All intelligent programs on this starship are maintained by this department.
Occasionally, they even have to cooperate with other departments to develop some artificial intelligence applications, and assist the Third Department and the First Department in responding to possible electronic warfare intrusions, etc.
The engineers in Shibu are all real programming masters. They graduated from the People's Federation of Higher Education Institutions and may not be as talented as Xiao Jiang, but their professional abilities are not inferior to the latter who has dabbled in all aspects.…
…and everyone does.
With the help of Ye Shi, they completed the design of "Celestial Being" without much effort. It was an intelligent life with the ability to evolve independently.
And it is completely designed based on the ultra-conservative forces in the People's Federation Aerospace Forces.
It will take purifying the ecological environment of the wasteland and restoring the era of prosperity as its own mission, and will sacrifice all survivors in the wasteland for this purpose.
According to the standards of the Scientific Ethics Committee, this kind of artificial intelligence with anti-human properties reeks of illegality from head to toe. In a peaceful era, everyone on the list, from developers to sponsors, would have been sued and sentenced.
.
But they don't care about that much now.
After all, according to Ye Shi, even if they don't do this, the ultra-conservative forces on the Lagrange Point space station will still develop similar intelligent life, or even become such a existence themselves.
This is an established fact in the future, and it is a fact that has already happened and cannot be changed. What they want to do is usurp.
Let this artificial intelligence disguised as a demon kill and replace the real demon, and then be killed by the "brave" in the distant future.
In this way, the cause and effect across time forms a closed circle.
In order to prevent the demon from being killed, they also left a fatal backdoor, or a key, while designing this intelligent life called "Celestial Being".
That's a set of keys.
As long as anyone enters this set of keys, the "Heaven" can automatically format it and bury this heinous devil.
Ye Shi is actually very willing to be the "exorcist" himself, but unfortunately according to Dr. Wu, he has the attribute of an observer.
Once he takes this set of keys to the future, it is very likely that this set of keys will become invalid.
In other words, this glorious mission can only be accomplished by the Orion guided missile cruiser itself that created the Celestial Being.
According to the "Dawn" plan, they will go to the wreckage of the "Gemini" guided missile cruiser in synchronous orbit two hundred years later and meet up with Ye Shi who has returned to their own timeline.
This is an essential part... After nearly 300 hours of hard work, all the preparations were finally completed.
With the help of the crew of the Orion guided missile cruiser, Ye Shi lay back down in the hibernation capsule where he first woke up.
He will use that unreliable method to re-enter hibernation, and then the crew of the Orion will send him into the nearly crashed scientific research ship.
According to Captain Zhao Tianhe, he does not have to wait too long inside. They will go to the site of the accident to rescue him in 200 years and wake him up from the dormant cabin.
Looking at the people standing in front of the sleeping cabin, Ye Shi had a somewhat complicated expression on his face, and finally couldn't help but complain.
"...If you don't appear on my timeline, I must have designed that day." What a wasteland locust.
This is too shameful!
"I promise you that we will never abandon you. After all, that is our home." Luo Yi put his hand on Ye Shi's shoulder and made a solemn promise.
"We will definitely meet, in the distant future."
"I hope...According to what you said, it's just a blink of an eye for me. If not, I don't have to look forward too much or wait too long."
When he said this, Ye Shi took a deep breath and looked at the familiar faces and pairs of hot pupils.
"But I believe in you, and you..." "Let's start!"
"Take care..." Koala also patted his shoulder, and then followed Luo Yi and left the room. Lin Youyou glanced at him worriedly, but eventually followed them.
Wu Xinghuan was the last person to leave.
He is the theoretical designer of the entire plan, and he is also the most anxious person at the moment.
Ye Shi gave him a "don't worry about me" look, and then closed his eyes with that cynical attitude. The worst he could do was to die.
It's not the first time he died.
However, when he thought of Jiang Xuezhou who was still waiting for him to return in a certain corner of the universe, he suddenly felt a stomachache after being arrogant in his heart just a second ago.
Brother Guang! I kneel down for you!
Let me go back, don't let me reopen!
The door of the dormant cabin slowly closed, and a biting chill crawled down his back and between his eyebrows.
The air he exhaled formed ice on the hatch glass, and he felt that his conscious consciousness was becoming shaky, as if he was about to return to the deep, dark well.
Suddenly there was a hint of timidity in his heart.
But now it's too late even if he wants to retreat. He can only rush forward. Just like before.
Standing outside the cabin, Zhao Tianhe stared at the dormant cabin intently, then looked at the staff wearing exoskeletons and spacesuits and nodded.
"Let's get started." The staff responded with a gesture of understanding, then raised the sleeping cabin and walked towards the room blocked by the isolation tape.
According to the plan, they were to stuff the dormant capsule back into the research ship, then restore the site to its original state as much as possible, and remove all observation equipment that might interfere with quantum entanglement.
Then……
Everything will return to the moment it started.
And the scientific research ship that accidentally entered their time and space will also become the Gemini landing craft. There will probably be some combatants on it.
But it doesn't matter.
Three space combat teams have been prepared and waiting here fully armed.
They will subdue those uninvited guests as soon as possible, disarm them and store them in a dormant cabin until the corrective cause and effect forms a closed loop 200 years later.
The lights in the room suddenly began to flicker without warning, as if something strange was happening.
Looking at Luo Yi standing aside in power armor, Wu Xinghuan couldn't help holding his breath, and his palms couldn't help but sweat.
Almost at the same time that engineers from the fourth department withdrew their equipment from the isolation area, the ship's hull seemed to have collided and trembled slightly.
Everyone present felt the tremor - like the reverberation of an explosion.
Everything seems to have returned to the origin of chaos in time and space.
Luo Yi was astonished and couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised. He subconsciously clenched the assault rifle in his hand. They succeeded?!
But vaguely, he felt something was wrong - could there be too many people who heard the explosion?
His mind was still wandering with the clues he had learned from the fourth and eighth departments. There were only more than 200 people who heard the explosion, and the accurate number should be 227.
But now, there are no less than 100 people present.
But there was no time to think. As expected, the people from the Gemini had already landed on their lower deck. "Get ready to fight!" Xiao Yong shouted, and he took the lead in rushing forward with his men.
The sealing gate falls, sealing off the area of air leakage.
Fifty combatants quickly arrived at their respective positions and then advanced towards the site of the accident in a siege.
Arriving at the door of the gym, they first threw a short electromagnetic pulse grenade into the room to suppress any possible drone equipment. Then two heavy-duty power armors cleared the way and rushed into the room.
A small boat-level spacecraft was parked there. The metal shell, which was two meters long and wide, was dented and twisted inward by the impact, and that appearance was indeed not the one they had seen before -
The spaceship has changed! In other words, it was successful!?
Everyone held their breath nervously and approached the spacecraft in a suppressed formation.
Xiao Yong shook his fist at Luo Yi, who nodded and pressed forward. He reached out and grabbed the twisted and deformed alloy door panel, and the brute force of the power armor pulled it down. One after another, the muzzles of the guns were pointed at
Inside the spacecraft, all blind spots were sealed in an instant. No one...
Luo Yi's mood was already half cold.
And when he saw the familiar sleeping cabin, almost everyone's mood sank to the bottom in an instant.
Looking at the situation on the front line through the holographic screen, Wu Xinghuan, who was standing outside the quarantine area, froze on the spot, his face turning pale for an instant.
"how come.……"
Zhao Tianhe looked at the navigator on the side with a serious expression, and the latter shook his head with difficulty. "We are still in the hyperspace channel..."
They didn't escape.
It was as if he had gone around in the forest and ended up back at the original point where he left the mark. Executive Officer Wu Mengke sighed, stretched out his index finger and rubbed his sore eyebrows.
"It can't be said that there is no gain, at least the spacecraft has indeed changed... maybe there is something wrong." Looking at her cousin who was completely stunned, she shook her head, stretched out her index finger and pressed on the communicator. ".
... Let’s rescue the people quickly first and then talk about it.”