There was no doubt that it was the landing craft of the People's Federation of China, but there were no fully armed soldiers inside, only an emergency sleep cabin.
The soldiers of the space combat team lifted out the dormant capsule, re-tightened the isolation belt at the accident site, and sent the dormant capsule to the nearest medical room.
After connecting to the power supply, they opened the dormant cabin door according to normal procedures.
As the cabin door opened, a girl wearing a silver-gray tights was seen lying inside.
Seeing the girl lying in the sleeping cabin, everyone around them held their breath involuntarily.
Her hair was almost gone, and her skin felt like it had been burned by fire. Large pieces of tissue fell off the dermis, so that her expression, which was twisted in pain, was blurred.
What's even more shocking is that she seemed to have been shot in the abdomen, and the cockpit was filled with frozen blood. The look could be described as horrific, and it's hard to imagine the pain she had suffered before.
Standing in front of the holographic screen, Wu Mengke felt a tight pain in his heart, and almost subconsciously blurted out, "Save people!"
There was no need for her to give orders at all, the medical staff waiting aside had already taken action.
They put her on a ventilator, quickly connected her to a life-support device, and started treatment.
Cryogenic hibernation is an extremely dangerous thing in the case of serious injuries. If you are not careful, you may actually turn into a corpse. Fortunately, the people in the wasteland are probably used to messing around, and their vitality is as tenacious as Xiaoqiang.
In addition, she was equipped with the academy's bionic prosthesis, so she was miraculously rescued from a near-death state.
"Her symptoms are like being hit by a neutron torpedo..." Koala, who was inspecting the prosthetic body, couldn't help but clicked his tongue and said in a low voice, "This guy can actually survive."
A colleague from the fourth department said.
"Maybe it's because of the deflector shield on the ship. Remember that scientific research ship before? That young man didn't suffer much damage."
The engineer standing aside nodded, touched his chin and said thoughtfully.
"A reasonable assumption is that because the young man was more prosthetic, he fainted due to the electromagnetic pulse when the nuclear explosion first occurred, but the radiation damage he received was smaller... chasing this girl is the other way around.
Yes, it withstood the electromagnetic pulse, but was affected by neutron radiation."
Koala said incomprehensibly.
"But why is she on another ship? And it's also a model of the People's Alliance Air and Space Force..."
"I don't know," the engineer shook his head and gestured with two fingers, "I can only assume that there are two ships, one is their own scientific research ship, and the other is on the wreckage... I
Do you understand that? It is part of the ruins."
Koala looked at him blankly, and his expression gradually became subtle. The landing craft that was originally on the wreckage...
This feeling seemed to say that their "Dawn" plan had failed...Obviously he was not the only one who thought so, many people around him fell silent.
While the engineers from the fourth department were discussing the strange prosthetic body installed on the patient, the doctors from the seventh department were concerned about the patient's condition. "It's so tragic...this girl."
"ah……"
"If it had been a few seconds late, I might have died."
All the doctors and nurses on duty were whispering, but Lin Youyou was the only one who stared blankly at that face. Noticing her expression, the colleagues on the side cast curious glances at her.
"...Do you know her?"
Lin Youyou nodded with a subtle expression. "Probably?"
"What is probably."
Lin Youyou was silent for a while and then said.
"Someone mentioned her name to me... I had a strong intuition that she was the girl the child mentioned." It was originally a promise made 200 years later, but I didn't expect it to be realized so soon.
The colleague on the side didn't know what she was talking about, and just looked at her in confusion. "Who is she?"
"Jiang Xuezhou."
After thinking for a moment, Lin Youyou nodded and confirmed her statement. "She is Jiang Xuezhou, there is nothing wrong with her."
He became her.
As for themselves, they are still stuck in this stagnant time - or in the gap between time and space. This is so strange...
At this moment, the person next to the treatment bed suddenly let out a slight exclamation. "The patient is awake!"
"Wait, she's talking!"
Hearing her colleague's exclamation, Lin Youyou immediately interrupted her thoughts and quickly walked to the side of the treatment bed.
The girl's breathing was very weak, and her cracked lips opened and closed slightly like candles swaying in the wind, which made people feel distressed... She heard her voice, which seemed to be calling someone's name.
"Ye ten..."
"It's so cold here..."
····……
So cold——
At the moment when his consciousness sank into the abyss, Ye Shi only had this feeling in his heart.
The biting cold seemed to penetrate his five senses and seep into his soul through his skin and hair. He subconsciously wanted to curl up into a ball, but he couldn't move.
This feeling is like plunging into the Arctic Ocean, and then being grabbed by an invisible hand by the throat, and being pulled straight from the surface of the sea to the deepest part of the seabed.
But the moment he was about to touch the bottom of the sea, the world seemed to turn upside down.
The tip of his nose did not touch the seabed, but emerged from another sea surface on the other side of the planet. "Buzz——"
Along with a tidal wave of noise, his lost five senses returned in an instant. Was it successful...?
Ye Shi sat up almost reflexively, but his forehead was engraved on the door of the sleeping cabin.
This behavior triggered the safety mechanism of the dormant cabin, or perhaps the safety mechanism had been passively triggered a long time ago.
The yellow signal light flashed with words similar to an alarm, and accompanied by a sound of air leakage, the tightly closed metal hatch slowly opened.
"cough--"
Ye Shi only felt weaker than ever before, his whole body was top-heavy and his back was still pillowed in the ice cave.
But he still used all his strength to grab the edge of the hatch, turned over and floated out from the ice pile. Yes, he floated out.
There is no gravity here.
Even more than that, the outside space is colder than inside the hibernation chamber, but perhaps because of the thin air, the body temperature is not that low.
Ye Shi felt happy.
The lack of gravity at least means that he has broken away from the timeline two hundred years ago.
But soon his expression changed, and the thin air gradually made him feel suffocated. "Sun——"
Ye Shi cursed, and suddenly had an idea in his desperation. He moved his index finger to the back of his neck and clicked it twice, activating the internal circulation mode of the artificial lung.
He rarely used this mode when he was on the surface, so much so that he almost forgot that he still had this function.
After activating this mode, the lungs will close the air outlet and assist other digestive and metabolic organs to use electrical energy, catalysts, and water produced by respiration to achieve photosynthesis-like processes to generate glucose and oxygen.
Although in theory this cycle can continue as long as there is electric energy input, in actual operation there is actually a loss of quality.
After all, a "prosthetic man" equipped with a large number of bionic prosthetics is not a real bionic man, and he cannot truly survive outside the earth's ecological environment.
This function is probably only enough for him to stay in outer space for twenty-four hours, or even less. But--
This time should be enough.
According to the agreement, the crew of the Orion will be here to join them soon.
After calming down, Ye Shi took a look at the surroundings. The twisted steel and deformed cockpit were undoubtedly Jiang Xuezhou's scientific research ship.
However, what made his heartstrings tighten involuntarily was that only Xiao Jiang could not be seen here. "It's strange..."
Where are people?
He clearly heard her voice! And just a second before waking up!
You can't even just hear it, the white frost imprinted on the glass is clearly her breath!
An ominous premonition gradually spread throughout Ye Shi's body. He rummaged around the ruins for a while, even tearing off the twisted alloy door and getting into the crew cabin behind the cockpit, but he didn't see a single figure.
It was as if she disappeared out of thin air.
As time went by, the ominous premonition gradually turned into horror. A possibility suddenly appeared in his mind——
She's still in there!
In that "rift in time and space"! But how is this possible?!
Aren’t you the only one who can go in?!
Ye Shi's face changed between expressions of shock and disbelief, and even a hint of anger.
Just a few minutes ago, someone had promised him that they would come to save him, but nothing happened. Or they failed.
Or they completely forget about themselves.
Or maybe they couldn't restrain their impulse and tried to interfere with the universe within the horizon, and as a result, they themselves were submerged in the long river of time.
In short, the plan went awry. Reinforcements did not arrive!
Or maybe their meeting in a completely different parallel world, in the hyperspace channel, was just an accidental brush. He neither changed his future nor their future.
Instead, because of the cleverness of a group of people, a monster named "Heavenly Man" was created in a parallel world. "Damn..."
Ye Shi punched the wall hard, but was knocked into the other half by the reverse impact, almost unable to stop in the not-so-spacious cockpit.
But it was this collision that made Ye Shi realize that he had to calm down. He must not panic at this time.
The harder you are in a dilemma, the more calm you should stay.
Holding the wall to stabilize his body, he first adjusted his heart rate and tried to keep himself calm. Then he tried to log off.
The results of this attempt were the same as before.
The offline function is like being pulled out of the remote control, and I can't get it off no matter what. In this way, I am still in the "copy"...
After realizing this, Ye Shi breathed a sigh of relief. He had discovered it.
When in the copy, the flow of time in reality slows down, or in other words, his time accelerates. A very simple logic can prove it.
He stayed on the USS Orion guided missile cruiser for two full weeks. If the time flow in the game and in reality is really 1:1, even if Jiujiu really left his brother alone, he would be very cold in reality.
There is only one explanation.
The time flow rate between the copy he is in and the real world is different! More than that.
This difference in time flow rate is not just a difference between fast and slow, but also inserts a period of "time that does not exist on this timeline" on his timeline.
It is precisely because of this that several days have passed for him in the dungeon, but not long has passed in reality, only one or two hours have passed. In the real world, only such a small amount of time has passed, and outside the dungeon,
The game world is naturally the same. He doesn't know how this is technically achieved.
Maybe it's through some kind of psychological suggestion, maybe it's through computational simulation...
But in short, this can explain why he can always hear the same four sentences over and over again. As for why Jiang Xuezhou is not here, there is only one explanation left -
She also entered the dungeon!
But why can't he and the crew on the ship detect her existence even though she has entered the dungeon? No, it may not be that she cannot be observed!
There is just a time difference!
In fact, the time of her arrival was most likely the time of his departure. This was also the reason why they could not observe each other.
A glimmer of understanding gradually poured into Ye Shi's mind.
Everything that was originally fuzzy gradually became clear with his detailed analysis, and the pieces of the fragmented puzzle in his mind were connected.
Starships hovering in synchronous orbit fired neutron torpedoes at their research ships.
Although the deflector shield of the scientific research ship took part of the damage, he was not comatose due to neutron radiation, but because the electromagnetic pulse generated by the nuclear explosion caused the bionic device to overload.
The smaller the device, the more likely it is to be affected, especially when it is covered from head to toe and even on the skin. Memory begins to fragment.
When he fell unconscious, Jiang Xuezhou, who was relatively less affected by electromagnetic pulses, dragged him into the sleep chamber.
The main damage she suffered was probably from neutron radiation.
However, due to the deflector shield, her injuries should not be fatal.
Of course there is more than one sleeping cabin on the scientific research ship, but she did not lie down in it herself.
After all, their enemy has not gone offline, they have no reinforcements, and lying down for both of them means waiting to die! She has only one choice -
That is to keep fighting! While you are still awake.
Ye Shi put himself into the other party's shoes. Lying in front of him was Xiao Jiang who was in a coma. "...If it were me, I would not stay where I was and wait for death. I would definitely try my best to
Save her." But how?
His brain was running very fast, like an overclocked computer, simulating countless possibilities in an instant.
Although his intelligence attribute has never been low, after playing the game for so long, it was the first time that he used all his brain cells to think about things that perception players never had to think about...
"My advantage is my perception and I will probably consider an ambush... Her advantage is programming and understanding of machinery and ruins... I can only think of solutions from the environment itself."
She is an expert in artificial intelligence.
She possesses almost genius-level programming skills, and has served in the Beacon Team. She is also quite experienced in exploring relics from the United Nations era.
So……
There is only one thing she can do. That is to use offense as defense and compete with the "celestial beings" who have landed on the starship for control of the starship! In this way, the fake "celestial being" who is on the spacecraft at the moment
"Luo Yi" couldn't care about his own side.
That guy can only chase her at all costs!
Thinking that the girl who was afraid of the dark and cold had done so many things for him, Ye Shi suddenly felt that the bridge of his nose was a little sore, and he couldn't help clenching his fists that were supported on the wall.
"Damn it, if I can't pass this dungeon... I will delete my account and practice again..." Everything became clear.
And those clues that are not clear yet are only the last few pieces of the puzzle left.
Including why he still couldn't log off, including the fact that the reinforcements that were supposed to arrive the moment he woke up unexpectedly failed to show up, etc...
Although the whole process may be more twists and turns than I imagined, in general it is not difficult to guess.
During the time she was asleep, she should have gained control of the starship, or at least part of the area and equipment.
For example, the core warp engine...
In the worst and most extreme situation, the last resort she can resort to is nothing more than one -
That is to use up the last bit of energy that the starship can use to jump, open a hyperspace channel to jump to another galaxy, and completely banish this starship with the ability to destroy the world from outside the solar system.
In order to prevent her from opening the hyperspace channel, "Luo Yi" most likely fired again and detonated a neutron torpedo at close range, or simply detonated it directly on the launcher.
This is what is most likely to happen.
That guy is probably a bionic man, and it is very likely that he is a bionic man made by Gemini. It is precisely because of this that the guy can use this strategic weapon unscrupulously. But this is not the point.
The point is that the neutron torpedo detonated in the hyperspace channel turned the abandoned Orion cruiser into a new "black box", and it belongs to the wasteland era 215 - the wasteland era is about to end and enter a new era.
The "black box" of the timeline.
The explosion of the neutron bomb and the hyperspace jump cannot occur at the same time, because there is no concept of time in the hyperspace channel, and the former will prevent the latter from happening.
Therefore, there must be a sequence for the occurrence of the two, even if the explosion of the neutron bomb is certain.
It is precisely for this reason that the two situations of the neutron bomb exploding at the entrance of the hyperspace channel and exploding at the exit form a superposition state in quantum mechanics.
It was not only the crew of the Orion from more than two hundred years ago who became superpositioned, but also himself, Jiang Xuezhou, and a certain android with the same name as Luo Yi.
The intersection of the two timelines did not occur at the moment when the scientific research ship collided with the Orion, nor at the moment when the first neutron torpedo exploded, but when he was sleeping - before the starship entered the horizon.
The moment of the "hyperspace channel" outside!
At this moment, Jiang Xuezhou fell into a superposition state of uncertainty about life and death for some reason.
As for me, because the dormant cabin formed a "Faraday cage", not only was I lucky enough not to be affected by the second "strategic EMP strike", I even woke up unexpectedly due to the impact of EMP on the external circuit of the dormant cabin.
The moment he wakes up and the moment she closes her eyes together constitute the starting point of their intersection with another timeline, and the moment she wakes up or dies is the end point of the intersection of timelines!
Ye Shi's understanding of physics is actually only at the undergraduate level, and his understanding of high-energy objects is limited to Young's double-slit interference experiment.
Perhaps Professor Storm can give a more scientific explanation, but these things are not important at this moment! In this second black box, he is no longer an observer, but the cat itself in a superposition state.
Regardless of whether the friendly forces from two hundred years ago still remember that distant agreement, or they were destined to be unable to keep the appointment from the beginning, the so-called deceiving the observers was just their wishful thinking from beginning to end... He must do what only he can do at this moment.
Things to do.
There is no concept of time here, and no one can save her! Except himself!
Grasping the edge of the hatch, Ye Shiyi kicked open the twisted cockpit door, and floated into a dark room along with the flying door panel.
He no longer has to hide his existence.
Rather, it would be better to let the impostor who calls himself "Luo Yi" come to find him!
The creaking sound of broken steel came from his right hand clenching the door frame. At the same time, he turned on the flashlight and quickly confirmed the situation around him.
This is the mess hall on the lower deck.
He remembered it very clearly, and even remembered that his last meal was potato beef here... Although the potato beef was not in his stomach at the moment, but was left in the "time and space" that did not exist in the main timeline.
crack".
But miraculously, these memories have been preserved, and even the taste buds on the tip of the tongue still have a faint aftertaste.
Familiar tableware, tables and chairs were floating in the corner of the room. There were no flashing lights here, only darkness, and the scene was chaotic like a car accident scene.
All the familiar people were gone, whether it was the crew members who were dining or the android chef who was in charge of the dishes, and...that was a matter of course.
Looking at the dark well-like corridor outside the cafeteria, Ye Shi gritted his teeth, took a deep breath and closed his eyes, allowing his five senses to sink into the deep darkness, and moved outward wantonly along the hand clenched on the door frame.
diffusion.
The five senses spreading outward were like a dense spider web, and any slight movement could not escape the capture of his synapses.
Whether it's the slight collision between the garbage and the wall, the rustling friction, or the wind that is so thin that it is almost impossible to feel it...
That was definitely not a natural movement. Ye Shi's eyes suddenly opened.
Although he couldn't see the man's face through the rubble, he could clearly sense which corridor the man was walking in.
There is no doubt about that familiar yet unfamiliar feeling——
It was the "accident scene" that he had not been allowed to enter!
The man carrying the jetpack was pressing the buttons of the jetpack, floating in the gravityless corridor like a ghost, slowly approaching the gym that was enclosed by an isolation zone in a parallel world.