Li Zhanxiong left the control center and returned to the office. Jacob was sitting on the sofa with his eyes closed and resting. After entering the room, Li Zhanxiong asked the chief of staff to stay, waved everyone else out, and then closed the door.
Jacob opened his eyes and saw Li Zhanxiong standing in front of him. He stood up and bowed to him and said, "I'm taking the liberty to come here and disturb General Li! It's really an urgent matter. Please understand General Li!"
"What's the matter with Mr. Jacob?" Li Zhanxiong motioned for him to sit down and then asked.
"Ai Bin appears again!"
"Ai Bin? Are you talking about Aisen's brother?"
"Yes. Aisen once told me that Ai Bin and 'Marginal Space' had disappeared for a long time and never contacted him again. But this time Ai Bin found me. He said he knew what Aisen wanted to do,
And he also knows the key that Eisen is looking for, but he cannot tell Eisen. Ai Bin hopes to regain communication with Eisen through you and me."
"How did Ai Bin find you? You have never interacted with each other before?!" Li Zhanxiong was puzzled.
"Ai Bin and I have met before. During the dream-sharing experiment with Aisen, I had interactions with Ai Bin." Jacob explained.
"So that's it!" Li Zhanxiong said with a heavy heart: "Aisen and the 'Zhurong Hao' have been out of contact for 50 days! Why don't we want to get news about them... Now, their life or death is uncertain!"
"I believe in Aisen! His abilities are rare among us immortals. And he has a very high level of consciousness, even surpassing me! Before Aisen went to Saturn, he had communicated with me, and I also
Agree with his judgment, that is: 'cloud bodies' do not have the initiative to attack the human living environment. They come to the earth just to understand and understand the earth's ecology and human civilization. As long as humans do not take the initiative to provoke them or stimulate them, then for the time being
There will be no life-threatening danger.”
"Will the 'Cloud Body' accept Eisen? What is Eisen's plan? We know nothing. Do you believe that Eisen can convince the 'Cloud Body' to leave the solar system?"
"Eisen has had such an idea, but in the end it depends on the result of his interaction with the 'Cloud Body'. Now, the 'Cloud Body Brain' does not ignore his existence, which is at least a positive signal."
Li Zhanxiong thought for a moment and asked: "Can Ai Bin still help Aisen now?"
"He now knows where Aisen is going, so he should be able to do something about it."
"In that case, why did you come to Base X..."
"To be able to see them as soon as possible!" Jacob said sincerely. "Eisen, Mr. Gao Tianjun, Miss Ding Yushi...and Lawrence, they are all angels! I need to see them with my own eyes!"
Li Zhanxiong stared at Jacob for a long time, then turned his attention to the chief of staff, asking for his opinion. The latter nodded.
"Okay then! Mr. Jacob." Li Zhanxiong said.
Gao Tianjun and Zhang Nan's consciousness returned to their bodies in the cabin of the "Zhurong", but Eisen disappeared in front of everyone. Not only that, the projection of the "Fuxi" also disappeared. The spaceship was restored on the display
Black screen state when entering "Cloud Body".
"Where did Aisen go?" Ding Yushi asked nervously, "Why did he disappear suddenly..."
"He should have been taken to another parallel space by the 'Cloud Body'." Lawrence said. "There are multiple parallel spaces here, the 'Zhurong Hao', the 'Fuxi Hao', and now Aisen, they should be in three respectively.
in parallel spaces. And these parallel spaces are all intertwined within this huge 'cloud'."
"Will there be multiple parallel spaces inside the 'cloud body'?" Ding Yushi asked.
"Eisen is right. The interior of the 'cloud body' is a high-dimensional space. Now we have reason to believe that this high-dimensional space is composed of several parallel spaces, which are intertwined and superimposed on each other, but are isolated from each other.
of."
"Ideas..." Ding Yushi muttered to herself, "Aisen said that thoughts are another dimension of the multidimensional space! We may try to enter Aisen's space through thoughts..."
"It's useless. With Eisen's strong subjective consciousness and ability to transmit thoughts, he can only passively shuttle through parallel spaces under the control of the 'cloud body', and we can't even do that!"
"But in fact, Aisen, Director Gao and Zhang Nan have been on the 'Zhurong' since the beginning. They just traveled through consciousness. But now Aisen has even disappeared physically! How did he do it?!
"
"Aisen can't do it on his own. This is caused by the 'cloud body'."
"When Eisen was interacting with the 'Cloud Body' just now, he seemed to have mentioned the 'marginal space', and then disappeared." Gao Tianjun said thoughtfully.
"So, in our space and in this spaceship, there are still 'cloud' molecules?! Are they monitoring us all the time?"
"This is not ruled out! We are in a high-dimensional space, and anything can happen." Lawrence said.
"Restore the spacecraft's power system immediately and start the thrusters!" Yan Shaojun made a decisive decision.
She no longer cares whether the space in front of her is real or illusory. She must try to see if she can get the spacecraft out of this place.
Zhang Nan pressed the power switch, but there was no response. He pressed it again, but there was still no response. Then he pressed the thruster ignition button, and the thruster also had no response.
"The power cannot be turned on and the thrusters cannot be started."
"All of us and the 'Zhurong Hao' are probably just projections in this high-dimensional space!" Gao Tianjun said in a low voice.
"Then...in the three-dimensional space...are we still there?"
Ding Yushi's words suddenly broke through everyone's hidden concerns, and the atmosphere in the cabin suddenly fell into a dead silence...
After Vera and the astronauts on the "Gagarin" spacecraft spent more than 50 long days in a distant space more than one billion kilometers away from the earth, they were repeatedly tortured by loneliness, anxiety, fear, irritability and depression.
I almost collapsed mentally and physically.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In order to monitor the dynamics of the spacecraft and the physical condition of the astronauts in real time, the control center of the Russian Vostochny Cosmodrome has always maintained a call with the "Gagarin" every half hour
Once. Over time, this routine call has gradually made both parties tired and numb. There can still be multiple people rotating in the control center, but for the four astronauts on the spacecraft, even Vera has arranged for one person to be rotated every 2 hours.
, but everyone has long lost their patience. They even suggested to Vera that they would rather rush into the "cloud body" and detonate the nuclear reactor of the spacecraft and die together with the "cloud body", rather than continue to wait needlessly!
As the spaceship commander, Vera must remain calm and restrained. She still firmly believes that the interaction between Eisen and the "Cloud Body" can be effective, and firmly believes that Yan Shaojun can lead the "Zhurong" to save the danger and return safely. She decisively rejected the crew
their suggestions.
However, among the three crew members, Colonel Eugene and Lieutenant Colonel Oleg, both former fighter pilots, have experienced aerial combat in local wars. They are bloody and resolute, and have typical characteristics of a "combat nation". Among them, Colonel Eugene also
She was known as the "Condor" of the Russian Aerospace Forces because of her outstanding military exploits. The two had long been strongly dissatisfied with the rationality and prudence of Vera, an academic who was the only female officer on board the Gagarin.
; Dr. Sergey, another astrophysicist from RKA, also developed a pessimistic mood due to long-term anxiety and depression. So, under the organization of Eugene, several people conspired and decided to join forces to control Vera and remove her control.
Command of the spacecraft.
After the three people discussed it, they immediately started taking action. When it was Vera's turn to rest, while she was asleep, Eugene secretly turned off the spacecraft response system and the cabin camera, and then held Vera down together with Oleg.
And wrapped her tightly on the seat with tape. Then, Eugene grabbed her hand and unlocked the fingerprint password on the control system, and sent a message to Russia's Vostok Space Base:
"There is no news about the Space Fleet's 'Zhurong', 'New Enterprise' and 'Planet Guardian' so far, and their lives and deaths are unknown. The 'Gagarin' is also in danger and cannot return. With the unanimous consent of all astronauts, this letter is specially sent to
The base requests that for the sake of Russia and humanity, please allow us to fulfill our final responsibility and die together with the 'Cloud Brain'! Your Vera."
Due to the interruption of video and sound signals, General Andrei, the supreme commander of the Eastern Space Base, had no idea what happened on the "Gagarin". He was surprised by the message from Vera.
Two hours before receiving this telegram, during the base's routine call with Vera, her emotional response and the data displayed by the vital signs detection system showed no abnormalities; in her subsequent routine calls, there was no abnormality.
I didn't find anything wrong with Colonel Eugene and the others. Based on Andre's understanding of Vera, I believe she shouldn't have had such an impulse.
However, the interruption of the video and response systems still made Andre somewhat worried - if this was not done by the "Cloud Body", then it could only be that the people on the "Gagarin" deliberately turned off the system!
"Who could this be? Why is this happening?"
Andrei thought again and again and ordered his men to call back: "Dear Colonel Vera, Colonel Eugene, Lieutenant Colonel Oleg and Dr. Sergey, on behalf of the Eastern Space Base, I would like to extend my highest respect to you! The Russian people and
All mankind admires and thanks you for your fearless spirit of sacrifice! Regardless of whether this mission is successful or not, you have written the most magnificent chapter in the epic of human civilization. You are the most supreme in the eyes of all mankind.
The greatest hero! However, a hero should persevere until the last moment. Even in the face of death, he should not make unnecessary sacrifices easily! We have united with CNSA's X base and will soon send a second batch of spacecraft to pick you up.
.Please have firm confidence! Andre.”
After receiving a call back from the base, there were obvious differences of opinion among the three astronauts responsible for the accident.
Eugene believed that General Andrei was deceiving them, because in just over two months after their departure, neither RKA nor CNSA could assemble a new spacecraft, so they must stick to the implementation of the established plan; although Oleg
He also had some doubts about the idea of sending the second batch of spaceships, but he was infected by Andre's sincere attitude, so he felt somewhat guilty for his impulsive behavior; Sergei also originally developed the idea of taking life as a fortune-teller under the influence of Eugene.
He thought about fighting, but he regretted it soon afterwards. He felt that no matter what decision they made, they should not ignore Vera's wishes.
Oleg asked Eugene to truthfully tell Vera their decision, and she also had the right to know General Andre's call back. Even if Eugene still decided to detonate the "Cloud Body" in the end, he should at least let this person know the truth.
Women's rights are respected at the very least.
Eugene was persuaded by Oleg. He carefully removed the tape wrapped around Vera's mouth and upper body, allowing her to speak and sit up, but her legs continued to be tied. He did not want her to be completely free yet.
After reading General Andrei's reply, Vera said to everyone with tears in her eyes: "Eugene, Oleg, Sergey, frankly speaking, I feel very sorry for your behavior, and I feel even more sad!
As a soldier, I know my sacred mission - to sacrifice my life for the country and for mankind. I will not hesitate at all! However, we have not reached despair yet! Although we are far away from the earth, we are still
We are in danger, but we are the only remaining warriors of mankind who can continue to retain the hope of mankind. No matter how slim this hope is, as long as we and the Gagarin are still here, hope will continue. In this sense
In other words, doesn’t the loneliness, exhaustion, panic and mental torture we have experienced prove that we are stronger and more courageous than others?! If our will is defeated by these difficulties that should be endured and overcome, we will become
If the mentality is unbalanced and leads to reckless and childish impulses, then I want to ask, will what we get at the expense of ourselves be a result that we will have no regrets?!"
Eugene and Oleg looked at each other, bowed their heads and said nothing. Their views on Vera began to change in their hearts.
Vera wiped the tears on her face and continued: "There is no doubt that it is impossible for us to die together with the 'Cloud Brain', and even if we gather all the energy of the solar system, we cannot destroy them! We are in front of them
It was nothing! The New Enterprise was eliminated because Captain Walker decided to activate the electromagnetic gun without authorization. He conveyed the idea of attack, so it was destroyed by the Cloud Body. Therefore, if the Gagarin
If we make similar moves, we will suffer the same fate as the New Enterprise before we can rush in. By then, not only will our only value of retaining hope for mankind be lost, but we may also cause a 'cloud body'
'The aversion to life on earth has led to the idea of completely eradicating human beings. This is the most fundamental reason why I do not agree with your plan!"
Eugene was silent. Tears flashed in his eyes, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth were twitching slightly. After a long time, with tears in his eyes, he removed the tape from Vera's legs, helped her stand up, and then hugged her tightly.
Kissed her cheek and whispered: "I'm sorry! Dear Vera! I'm ashamed of my behavior! I'm a coward! Please forgive me!"
"Thank you, Eugene! Thank you! I will admit my mistake to General Andrei—it was me who sent that telegram!"
Oleg sighed and turned on the spacecraft's response system and cabin camera again...