Chapter 128
"Natural wormholes are not artificial transition points, they are very unstable. People are not thorough in their research on it at present. I have read your report. The logic of the theoretical framework is generally fine, but experiments are not equal to theory. Any variable you ignore in mathematical formulas may be fatal in the experiment."
"According to the idea, you may be able to fix this passage, or you may have the opposite effect, causing the space to collapse, may die, or may fall into an unknown state of life. Are you mentally prepared for death?"
The expedition team is about to enter the wormhole area, and Lu Bixing's instructions are still in his ears.
The Interstellar Expedition and the guards escorted them were all very powerful when they appeared in any place, but when they were thrown into this unknown land, they were like a group of small ants, rolling up trembling leaves as boats, plunging into the whirlpool sea.
"The equipment energy reaction temperature is relatively high-"
"I understand," Mint responded, "activate the pre-cooling device."
"The cooling tube progress...6%...45%...99%...prepared."
"Everyone, the psychological feeling is different from last time." The voice of the expedition captain rang in the communication channel. "We didn't prepare anything last time. We plunged into it and didn't feel anything. On the contrary, this time, although we have been doing theoretical research for a few years and upgrading the equipment, we seem to be fully prepared, but our livers are still a little trembling."
Another team member said: "Normal, ignorant people are fearless."
"A 120-second warning is entered into the wormhole area and the countdown is activated," the captain paused, "Are the suicide notes ready?"
"Just say a little bit, there is no inheritance, what is the suicide note written? Is the original elegiac couplet?"
"I'm just eating and my whole family is not hungry, so I can even save my goodbye."
Mint is a girl who doesn't talk much. She didn't join the discussion and checked the opening-up device for the last time - her suicide note was backed up in the laboratory of the expedition team. If an accident occurs, ten months later, the computer will automatically pass it to Lu Bixing and her three classmates. This is her only relative.
The content of the suicide note is very simple, just one sentence: "I can't go back, I'm sorry."
This sentence "I'm sorry" has been in her heart for many years, accompanied by her day and night, and she has gone through her entire adolescence until she grows up and becomes an adult.
The four of them experienced a lot of things. Huang Jingshu was determined to devote herself to anti-missile research that seemed to be no longer visible for ten thousand years. She joined the army and White joined the engineering department. Only Mint chose an unpopular and dangerous profession like the "Interstellar Expedition". She wanted to go further and deeper into the universe, hoping that the grand starlight could dispel the humble struggle of mortals.
On the day of the accident, she actually contacted the engineering department on Saturday. For so many years, she always thought that if she could be more patient with him and observe him more carefully, she might be able to see something was wrong with him.
Maybe...If that person was not Saturday, she might have asked more questions at that time. However, the pursued girl was protected by her elders, and she was always used to being arrogant to the suitors who followed her like a slut, liked to throw him into an impatient look, and liked to see him scratch his head.
If she could be more mature, learn not to bring her personal feelings into business, find out something wrong in time, and warn her on Saturday in time, will everything not happen?
Before leaving, Mr. Lu even called her aside and told her that she still had time to regret it. Seeing that she was obsessed with it, he also told her a lot of safety precautions.
No one blamed her, but she could never face herself.
At this time, the colleague exclaimed, Mint came back to his senses, and looked up and saw that the space they were in began to twist, as if they were passing through a deformed magnifying glass. Soon, everything around began to turn into slow motion. The alarm of rapid energy changes should have sounded in the mecha, but the alarm light was vaguely seen on the alarm light, but the sound could not be heard. The communication channel was completely disconnected, and the imitation gravity field failed. Mint found herself floating up. The seat belt connected to the cabin door was tightened behind her, fixing her in a certain area. She opened her eyes wide and heard her heartbeat that was extremely slow.
The last time they broke into a wormhole, they basically fainted as soon as they entered. When they woke up, they were facing mechas that almost turned into broken iron. Fortunately, they were all wearing space suits at that time, otherwise the cosmic rays and air pressure would allow them to go without returning.
This time the situation was much more relaxed, at least Mint's consciousness was sober.
She couldn't feel her body, and felt that the mecha seemed to have fallen apart. She raised her head and saw an ecological cabin passing by her quickly, heading towards their direction. With a glance at it, she subconsciously wrote down the models and numbers on the ecological cabin.
Immediately afterwards, the space stretched infinitely, shrinking into a very small point in the distance. Her field of vision could penetrate and look in infinite distance. There seemed to be countless convex lenses floating there. There were some familiar scenes flashing on each "mirror" - Beijing β-star bombarded, the first terrifying base of the Eight Galaxy... and her own face when she was young.
After more than ten years, the girl's eyes met the young explorer who is now, swept over easily, then turned her head and said something to Zhou Ai on the communication screen.
"Stop him!" Mint shouted desperately at the girl, "Tell him that General Tulan is about to explode and jump to the point of jumping, don't touch anything, don't receive any communication, he will regret it! It will kill many people!"
However, the turbulence of time and space in the wormhole cannot shake the theory of cause and effect. She saw herself in the past through twisted time, but the two passing time and space cannot intersect.
"Don't hang up! Please!"
The interlaced time and space finally left her ruthlessly. The "convex mirror" went further and further away, and finally turned into a small dot as big as a needle.
Facts are facts, time and space will be curved, but a person's life will eventually be a one-way line.
Nothing has changed what has happened.
"Boom", a dazzling light burst out, and Mint's feet suddenly landed on the mecha, and she was pulled back to her original position by her seat belt.
Mint was stunned for a while and realized that they had passed through the wormhole area alive. She felt that her vision was not right, and she realized that she had no idea when she was already in tears.
She is not the only one who cries, and everyone who is lucky enough to keep their consciousness is dumb.
For a moment, Mint suddenly realized that everyone living was suffering and cared for, and would cry bitterly when passing by the old days - even though they carried the curiosity of all mankind and walked a life path full of passionate and voyage spirit, everyone looked so energetic.
But when they were in the wormhole active area, they didn't have much time to calm their emotions. There was a noise in the communication channel at first, and then they heard the captain organizing emergency repairs in a hoarse voice. Through the spiritual network, their expedition team had shrunk a lot.
"What's going on?" Mint took off the helmet of the space suit and quickly wiped his face, "Why are we the only one left?"
"Space and time flow," the colleague replied, "it should have been rolled to another place, I hope it's not far away - can internal communication be repaired? Can I find a way to get in touch with them again?"
"It's so bad, there are no jump points here, and it's impossible to build remote communication... Beep... the signal has been interfering..."
"Captain," said Mint, "the wormhole passage we just passed did not disappear immediately, and the fluctuations in the field were still stable. Has our experiment been successful? Can we try to send signals to the Qimingxing Base now?"
The captain had not had time to answer.
"Wait a minute, my mecha seems to be warning," the pilot of a mecha next to him suddenly interrupted everyone's words, "Look, what is that?"
The expedition team carefully braked and found that there was a huge starship wreck floating not far away from them, surrounded by countless small mecha fragments, spinning quietly like a space cemetery.
Mint quickly locked the wreckage with a military recorder and searched for useful information. After a moment, an image was enlarged several times, and a line of words on the wreckage jumped into her eyes: "Jing...yuan...number?"
Qi Mingxing's command center was also very nervous, because after the signal from the expedition team disappeared for a week, he suddenly received intermittent messages, but he couldn't hear clearly. The words inside were male voices, female voices, and even a paragraph that could not be decoded.
The engineering department was in trouble.
"Let Zhan Lu come," Lu Bixing received the message in the middle of the night, rushed over and scanned the garbled codes at a glance. "It should be that several messages were mixed together, which may be caused by the distortion of time and space, or it may be that the expedition team was separated when they passed through the wormhole."
"Received." Zhan Lu, who was in the form of a robot, directly occupied a circle of super computers in the command center and quickly gave a conclusion, "According to the information decoding rules, there should be three pieces of information, the basic content is similar, and they all report that they safely pass through the wormhole, but they are separated from some companions. The third piece of information in the garbled code seems to have some content, which is being decoded, wait..."
The unstable signal sounded sharply and then disconnected. Zhan Lu was silent for a moment: "The decoding was completed - Miss Mint reported that the wreckage site of the Starship Jingyuan was found near the landing site."
The "Jingyuan" was a starship that Lin Jingheng took when he returned to Votto from the Silver Fortress. It was blown up when he passed by the heart of the Rose.
Even if the non-armed starship is forced to circumvent the restricted area, it will not go very deep.
Zhan Lu's calm voice rang in the command center: "If the influence of unknown gravity can be eliminated, it may mean that Miss Mint and their location are very close to the first galaxy."
In the sixth galaxy, the space prison is getting closer to its destination, and the automatic artificial energy tower surrounding the asteroid has already entered a dormant state.
"You know, it may not be us who are paying attention to the revolving, but Jingshu, right?" said Dr. Harden.
Lin Jingheng took the design drawing of this space prison, and marked it while looking at it, without raising his head, saying, "I'm afraid she won't come."
For fourteen years, Lin Jingshu dared not get close to him. On the one hand, it probably didn't know how to face him. On the other hand, as a person who could survive the explosion of the jump point, it was not surprising that Lin Jingheng did anything unexpected. If he "restores his memory" and gives him some leverage, he could climb up. The place where he was kept must be completely isolated and must be impeccable.
"If she doesn't come, who will I send the signal to? I hope it will be randomly transmitted to the antenna of a loving passerby and ask someone to call the police for me?" Lin Jingheng sneered, "I have never been lucky."
Dr. Harden wanted to speak but stopped.
Lin Jingheng reduced the design drawing back to the personal terminal on his wrist: "As long as your old timing program is easy to use."
The core ecosystem of the Space Prison is in the mountainous area more than 500 kilometers away from the experimental base. Maintenance personnel travel back and forth between the two places every ten days through special rail cars for daily maintenance.
The railcar was parked quietly in the platform, and a slit was gently uncovered. Lin Jingheng looked out and gently pinched the shield - the work of Dr. Harden, which took five years, was disguised as a necklace and hung around his neck. The aesthetic became a mystery. Fortunately, it was powerful. It can interfere with monitoring and opium chips within a diameter of twenty meters for five seconds. The opium chip can increase the five senses and physical energy of a person many times. The "third generation" or more can even perceive infrared rays. Lin Jingheng needs a tool that can hide himself, and five seconds is enough for him.
The surveillance was blinded for a short time. Lin Jingheng immediately came out of the maintenance door and pried open the rear door and went in. As soon as he entered, a group of maintenance workers also got on the rail car, talking and laughing, looking quite peaceful, passing through the bathroom at the rear of the car, and walking into the rail car.
At this time, one of the people waved to his companions and turned around and walked back to the bathroom.
Behind the bathroom door, Lin Jingheng stood with breath, the five-second countdown prompt of the personal terminal on his wrist was zero, and the shielding failed—
The moment the maintenance worker opened the door, he heard a heartbeat that was not his own. He was stunned and searched around strangely. Then he heard it clearly, and the heartbeat came from behind!
Before the maintenance worker could turn his head back, something cold was stuck on the back of his neck. He opened his mouth wide and wanted to scream, but he couldn't make a sound. His body was uncontrollable. The special wave passed through his skin and reached the chip, resonating with the biochip, interfering with the micro current. He was like a skinned frog, his limbs twitched slightly, and was dragged silently to the corner of the wall.
Lin Jingheng pulled out the laser gun from his waist, pressed it against the back of his neck, pulled the trigger three times, cleverly avoiding the chip, burning the hard neck through the chip, and then took out a nano knife on the repairman, pressing it against the neck of the corpse and hitting it in. A square burn mark appeared on the skin, and the bloody biological chip fell out. The hard body suddenly softened and was carried into the bathroom compartment and closed the door.
He used his personal terminal to scan the biochip - Level 2, which should be the small leader among the maintenance workers.
Lin Jingheng turned his head and glanced at the corpse, put the biochip into a special disinfector, then took off the clothes on the corpse and changed it. The repairman happened to have a hat, lowered his head and pulled down the brim of the hat to cover his face.
After the chip was processed, it was pushed into a syringe. There was a transparent liquid in the syringe, which was quickly wrapped around the chip like glue. Lin Jingheng held the syringe and weighed it in his palm. The next moment, he injected it into his body without hesitation.
"Opium chips are highly addictive, especially for those who have high human-machine matching. Do not try it easily unless you have vitiligo." Dr. Harden once warned him, "If you encounter an emergency, I will give you a tube of blocker - this is an experimental product that can interfere with the impact of the chip on you. It is equivalent to artificially turning you into a 'vitiligo' in a short period of time, but at your metabolic level, the blocker will be absorbed and metabolized cleanly after up to ninety minutes. Before that, remember to remove it."
The track car travels about forty minutes, and less than an hour left is enough.
Lin Jingheng turned around and locked the bathroom door, walked back to the car, found a corner to sit down, and pulled his hat down to cover his face.
Even with the blocker, he could feel an almost uncontrollable force. His five senses were greatly strengthened, and the heartbeats of people around him were almost a little noisy. Lin Jingheng had an illusion for a moment, and the moment he injected the chip, he was like a paralyzed patient who was not good at it suddenly recovered.
Another maintenance worker walked towards him. Lin Jingheng listened to the other party's approaching voice, but did not look up, thinking: "Get out!"
After the second-generation opium chip suppressed the first-generation chip, the other party felt his repulsion, he didn't dare to say a word, and walked away timidly, and a vacuum belt formed around Lin Jingheng.
Lin Jingheng opened the palm of his hand and pinched it virtually, but the personal terminal showed that the grip force of this gentle pinch had reached more than 400 kilograms.
The abnormal sense of power and control was like a dose of mental drugs, which should have been inspiring and intoxicating, but perhaps the blocker played a role, and Lin Jingheng suddenly felt a slight anxiety and uneasiness in his heart.
He remembered that Lu Bixing had injected himself with similar chips twice... At that time, was this what he felt?
The biochips that Lu Bixing injected were destroyed, but later the Free Legion tried to sneak into the Eighth Galaxy several times and brought some new biochips. He couldn't remember whether those chips were completely destroyed.
Lin Jingheng's palms tightened and thought to himself: I hope that old Persian cat can still be used.
The personnel responsible for equipment maintenance have a low status on this planet, mostly a generation of "opium". Lin Jingheng's infiltration was very smooth and he quickly touched the core ecosystem of this planet - climate, temperature and gravity.
Lin Jingheng placed several small black packages in different positions of the gravity control central processor. Finally, he took a look at the personal terminal. The asteroid was still approaching the planet. The particle storm warning came. He raised the corner of his mouth and left quietly as he came.
Thirty minutes later, the intensity of the particle storm on the asteroid reached its peak, and the impregnable shield was disturbed. At the same time, a series of earth-shaking explosions were suddenly emitted in the center of the core ecosystem, and the gravitational control suddenly failed. The ground gravity immediately decreased to one-tenth of its original. People on the planet could not control their steps and glided in the air in various postures. The most fatal thing is that this level of gravity could not maintain the artificial atmosphere!
The asteroid ecosystem is about to collapse, surrounded by warnings, and the ecosystem sends a hysterical distress signal, just passing through the damaged shield, blessed by a stellar storm, and rushed towards the outer universe.
Special distress signals sent when the planet or base ecosystem collapses will be captured by the nearest galaxy. If they have organizations similar to governments, they will definitely send people to check them out.
At the same time, sixteen days before the asteroid sailing, a mecha that always followed the asteroid was also alarmed by this shocking distress signal.
Chapter completed!