As the air pressure valve opened with a hiss, a line of people wrapped in protective suits walked out of the spacecraft, holding on to the grasping ring on the outer wall of the spacecraft and walking slowly, gradually adapting to this new gravity environment.
The place where the huge ring lies is a desolate reddish-brown land. On the curved horizon is the deep and absolute blackness of the universe. The sand-covered ground is interspersed with strips of shallow water that look like they have been stretched by the wind.
The white sand dunes are like the marks left by a brush. There is no life or brilliance here, but there is a kind of desolate and silent beauty.
Lin Sanjiu found it hard to believe that under her feet was the queen mother in "Shambhala".
According to Siba'an, the Queen Mother and its nerves are buried deep in the earth's core; as the celestial body itself grows day by day, the Queen Mother will also develop into a mature body. As he experienced Shambhala with him
As a person, Lin Sanjiu could never forget the scene in the cave - in her imagination, countless white nerves were stretching out around the core brain deep underground, tightly pinching the dust and stones.
Became a celestial body.
The Mother Queen can grow up, and the celestial body is its "flesh and blood". It can actively capture various substances in the universe and add them to its own "flesh and flesh", so it does not have to spend the time of the universe like a real planet.
It took a long time to grow bigger step by step. According to planetary standards, its size is still very small; its mass is not large, so its gravity is not large - everyone is not yet accustomed to this gravity environment, and it took eight people to leave
After a while, Ji Shanqing ate a horse.
Lin Sanjiu just snorted through her nose, and was heard by Li Bao through the internal communication of the protective suit.
"I'm going back!" he threatened.
It's pitiful to say that he is obviously a data body. As long as he abandons this body, he can travel through space at any time... Lin Sanjiu waved to him and immediately forgot to take the gift bag back. He tried to catch up clumsily, but fell again.
wrestle.
Nu Yue, Han Suiping and the other two evolvers all followed Ji Shanqing, walking harder than him. When they finally reached the place, Si Ba'an had been waiting for a long time. There was a big bag lying at his feet.
A stack of steel cables is standing under Exodus's belly - if you look at it from a distance, Exodus is now like a donut, with a circle of little feet stretched out and standing on the ground. The distance between the belly and the ground is just right.
Stand next to someone.
"Everyone, get the steel cables ready," Sba'an ordered from the communication system. "Each one finds a spacecraft foot and fix one end of the steel cable on the foot."
The task itself is not worth talking about, but Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that Li Baodang was a data body, and when she started working in a heavy and bulky protective suit, she was so clumsy that it was heartbreaking - she finished her work, and looked
After a few glances at him, he had no choice but to go and do his work again.
Next, Sibaan took out another long stick-like object. Lin Sanjiu discovered that after putting on the white protective clothing, even Sibaan, who always looked stunning, couldn't help but look a little silly.
Stupidity: Especially when he pierced the ground with the stick, it looked like a fat white mosquito getting ready to eat from a distance.
He seemed completely unaware of it. After pulling it out, he walked over and handed the thing to Lin Sanjiu, saying, "Just like I did just now, after pricking it in and exploring it a little bit, it will be able to relax easily on its own."
The earth separates a tunnel from the soil."
"Actually, I still don't quite understand what we are doing." Han Suiping muttered.
Since leaving the modern world, his spirit has gradually recovered a little; but unlike Nuyue, he never mentioned the modern world. Even when everyone sometimes talked about Maru Qingge who took the initiative to stay, he usually didn't speak.
, seems to be planning to completely cut off that world.
"You will know soon." Siba'an was very patient. "After everyone divided the tunnel underground, they stretched the steel cable in... Yes, just like that, all the way to the end."
Lin Sanjiu pushed the steel cable into the small round hole in the ground and let it fall in along the corridor. Now, one end of the steel cable was fixed on the spacecraft, and the other end fell into the corridor below the soil.
"I'm telling her now to grab these wires." Sibaan said softly, as if the Queen Mother was just a little girl.
"Ah?" Someone was confused and couldn't help but asked, "Who?"
When it was about to come, Lin Sanjiu held one end of the steel cable with one hand and couldn't help but take a breath. Unlike other evolvers present, she had seen the Queen Mother before, and she guessed what Sibaan was going to do.
Siba'an, who was wearing a protective suit, turned around and faced everyone; the communication system of the helmet fell silent. But after a moment, Lin Sanjiu felt the ground beneath his feet shaking slightly - not like an earthquake.
It feels like something is moving deep underground.
At Lin Sanjiu's feet, the steel cables that had originally placed the soft magnetic disk on the ground were suddenly pulled straight by an underground force. They were tightly stretched between the spacecraft and the ground, and even pulled Exodus askew.
, there was a dull creaking sound. One by one, the steel cables seemed to suddenly have vitality, jumping up one after another and stretching straight in the air; just when everyone was in doubt, Sibaan's voice sounded.
The communicator rang: "Mission accomplished, the queen's underground nervous system has wrapped the cable."
With the Mother Queen dragging it underground, Exodus is firmly fixed on the ground. The gravity of this celestial body is not strong, and Exodus only weighs a few tons here at most, which is not as heavy as a truck on Earth.
; So on the way Sibaan and Ji Shanqing came, they fixed the spacecraft in this way, and then the Queen Mother completed the next part of the journey.
In the midst of vague confusion, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but feel a little scared. He fixed the spacecraft, obviously because he was afraid that the spacecraft would be thrown down... But sailing in the vacuum universe with no wind and waves, what power can the spacecraft have?
How about being thrown off a celestial body?
Besides, the Queen Mother doesn’t have an engine on her body, so how can she move forward?
After everyone returned to Exodus, she returned to the control room with the gift bag and Sibaan. Half of the walls of the room still showed the scene ahead in real time: the reddish-brown land, the sand dunes extending to the horizon, and the distant black space.
A few stars.
"After I received the signal from my sister that day, I found that we were not far away," Ji Shanqing curled up in a chair, leaned his head on her shoulder, and said softly: "Immediately follow the signal with Sibaan
The source rushed to its launch site...but when we arrived, we saw that there was nothing in the universe."
"Looking for the wrong place?" Lin Sanjiu immediately thought of this possibility.
"There is no mistake. All the analysis methods at that time can prove that the signal came from that empty void... However, in the surrounding area of nearly 10,000 kilometers, except for the direction from which we came, there is not even a floating meteorite. .”
When Ji Shanqing said this, he couldn't help but tremble slightly - just thinking about it, he knew how terrifying that moment was for him.
"Then...how did you find me?"
"It's a long story. The queen happened to be nearby at that time."
Siba'an, who was sitting in another chair in front, turned around and continued the sentence, replying: "Its volume and mass are still relatively small. If it is attracted by the gravity of the planet, it may become a satellite. So generally speaking, it avoids getting too close to planets, and when I landed with Exodus, it stayed far away in space."
From the corner of Lin Sanjiu's eyes, she felt as if the picture on the screen in front of her trembled slightly - when she glanced at it subconsciously, she didn't notice any difference from before.
"We parked the spacecraft on the surface of the Mother Queen, and let it continue to move deeper into the universe to find your possible location... While we were discussing what was going on, the 'Great Flood' arrived." When Sibaan said this, he grabbed his blond hair with his hand, looked back at the big screen and said: "Before we could react, the queen took us and swam into the great flood. When the light of the great flood dissipated, , we discovered the modern world in a place where there was nothing just now."
Of course, there is no need to say anything next.
"Were you transported by the great flood?" Lin Sanjiu suddenly understood, "So if we want to return to the apocalyptic world, we also need to rely on the great flood... Wait, did the screen image tremble just now? "
"Yes, the Mother Queen can find great floods..." Siba'an's voice was low and soft, "In other words, its movement method is conducive to the emergence of great floods. Ji Shanqing explained this clearly better than me .”
"Sister," Libao said without paying any attention to the trembling screen scene, but patiently explained: "Generally, spacecraft are propelled by the medium to move forward in the universe. The medium in a vacuum is thin, so it needs to carry a large amount of fuel. The Queen Mother is essentially a living planet without engines or fuel, so the way it moves forward is very interesting... I think that it uses some means to make its surroundings an independent space, compressing the space in front of it, making it The space behind expands, so that you 'fall' into the space in front."
Lin Sanjiu always felt that he did not have the imagination required to understand physics, so he had to listen without saying a word. The image on the screen was shaking more and more frequently, but it was very slight: it was different from the shaking of the image when the signal was poor. , it seems that the universe in the field of vision is constantly shrinking and enlarging - at the same time, judging from the coordinate numbers on one side of the screen, their position in space is constantly moving forward.
"Its way of distorting space seems to easily lead to a big flood." Ji Shanqing also looked at the screen and said softly. "I have always been thinking about what a big flood is in essence?"
Lin Sanjiu stared at the screen and blinked. It was still dark in front of the planet, but she always had a vague feeling that something was brewing in the darkness... Maybe brewing was not the correct term.
"It wasn't until we were sent into the great flood," Ji Shanqing was still murmuring, "that I finally understood the nature of the great flood. Sister, do you still remember what you saw in the meat world? A scene? It's the one you saw in the dimensional rift..."
Lin Sanjiu sat up straight and almost let the gift bag slip. How could she not remember? At that time, air and matter were rushing into the cracks at extremely fast speeds, and the strong wind seemed to blow away people's thoughts. She had always suspected that it was her hallucination - why was there a small planet deep in the crack that was forcibly torn open?
The queen mother seemed to be thrown up suddenly by some force, and the picture on the screen suddenly tilted. When Lin Sanjiu was almost thrown off the chair, she first held down the gift bag. When she sat down again, she When I looked up, I found that the entire screen had gone dark. In the control room where the lights were not turned on, I could no longer see my fingers. It almost made people lose their sense of space.
"What's going on?" she asked in a low voice.
"The flood and the crack are actually very similar in nature." Libao murmured, "Where the flood and the crack appear, it means that at that point all the dimensions of space and time have collapsed and disappeared, and they can no longer be observed. To... In other words, the layer of the universe we are in has a hole."
Can the universe also "break a hole"?
"What about after the hole?" Lin Sanjiu asked blankly, sitting in the darkness.
"Just like what happened when I went to find you, we fell through the hole into another layer of the universe... You see."
Lin Sanjiu raised her head when she heard this. At first, she still felt that all she saw was pitch black; but soon she discovered that the big screen had not disappeared, and in the depths of the darkness it displayed, there was a floating star. Small, shiny dust. Half a minute ago, that coordinate was obviously empty, but now there is an extra planet.
"We just fell out of the hole in the universe created by the great flood and fell into another layer of the universe." The gift bag said softly, "There should be another doomsday world ahead."
