408. Drifting bottles
Sailing through the universe is tedious, and even more so in the sea of emptiness, where there is nothing left but a little starlight faintly shining through the desert.
But the second sex is happy, because they have never had such a large fleet, such a brand new warship. The fleets of the second sex have always been obsolete products collected through various channels, and the best ones are second-hand goods that have been used by others.
The shipyards that housed the USS Feminist and the former Liberator never built a brand new warship, and they were always busy providing repair services. So as long as it can still be driven, it is a good battleship for the second sex.
But even so, the fighting spirit of the second sex has always been high, and fighting has become their instinct, and from the moment the river of life was born, the fight for the dignity of women has been deeply engraved in the soul of the second sex.
There are very few timid second sexes, and there are only a handful of betrayers.
"Eurica. Polyxenia shook the pendant in his hand and whispered.
Carried in the hand of Polyxenia is a pendant in the shape of a teardrop, because it is often touched by the owner, it is very delicate and smooth.
Because of the scarcity of resources, the food and clothing of the second sex are rationed, and each person has very few personal belongings, especially non-necessities such as accessories. But women's nature of loving beauty is indelible after all, and the second sex tries their best to use all kinds of waste resources to process jewelry with different materials and forms to decorate their beauty.
The pendant in Polyxenia's hand was made of the inner wall alloy of the scrapped engine restraint, because of the long-term high temperature burning, the silver-white alloy was densely covered with starry sky-like points of light, even if there was no light, it could faintly emit a multicolored light.
The pendant belonged to Yulia and it was the only personal belongings left behind after her death. In fact, most of the other secondary sexes are also like this, and these small things worn on them will even become their symbols and accompany them throughout their lives.
Polyxenia can understand the reason why his best friend chose to betray, the second sex at that time was indeed at the end of its rope, and with the deception and temptation of Trus, it is not surprising that Yulia, who was born less strong than other sisters, would make a wrong decision.
Of course, this does not mean that Yuria's decision is right, betrayal is a betrayal for any reason, Yuria's choice has made the entire second sex almost in a desperate situation, if it were not for the help of her father, there would be no second sex in this world anymore.
"I just wanted to give you a chance to wash away your shame. Polyxenia recalls the shocking sight she had seen Shekretya reborn as a Valkyrie, and her eldest sister Varvara was once again standing in front of everyone, shocking countless second sexes. At that time, Polyxenia wondered if she could give Yuria's soul a chance to fight for the honor of the second sex again.
Polyxenia firmly believes that Yuria's soul has not completely dissipated, she has witnessed Yulia's remorse before she dies, she firmly believes that Yulia must be unwilling, and her soul must be attached to this pendant, Polyxenia can feel it.
In order to be eligible to make a request to Shekretya, Polyxenia was the first to come forward and apply to join the Valkyrie Project, even knowing that the goal of the project was death.
At this time, it was already the twentieth day after the jump, and the second sex had completely taken over the King's Guard, and finally had enough resources to project combat power outward, and a large number of Sabre-class frigates took the three soul planets as the center point, and drove one light year forward, acting as outposts and providing early warning services.
Polyxenia was captaining one of the frigates, and then, she discovered something strange.
Generally speaking, the sea of silence was extremely clean, and all objects were blown out of the desert by the devastating explosion in the first amazing war. But the universe is dynamic after all, and there will still be some objects that accidentally break in, most of which are small stars passing by. Because the Sea of Silence has no gravitational pull, these passers-by do not stop for much, and they usually go straight through it and continue their journey until they are captured by other sources of gravity.
But instead of the usual asteroids or meteorites in the universe, Polyxenia discovered an escape pod.
Since mankind entered the interstellar age, there have been many more things in the universe, and the escape pod is one of them, whether it is because of war or a simple spaceship accident, these unlucky people can always be seen in the universe.
In order to be easily detected and effectively rescued, most of the general escape pods have the following characteristics: first, it is very brightly colored and has reflective materials, which is done to facilitate the detection of rescue ships. In addition, the escape pod must have a signal transmitter with sufficient power and sufficient energy supply to send a distress signal to the perimeter as widely and persistently as possible.
But strangely, Polyxenia found that the escape pod was painted black to represent the background of the universe, and there was no distress signal. If the lack of a distress signal could be attributed to a mechanical malfunction, the black livery could not be justified in any case, unless the escape pod did not want to be discovered in the first place.
In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the Sea of Silence was really empty, the battleship's shipboard radar might not have been able to capture this man-made object with a diameter of less than ten meters, let alone find a small black object in the background of the universe with your eyes.
That is, this escape pod deliberately did not want to be discovered, that is, it was an escape pod that did not want to be rescued.
An escape pod that doesn't want to be rescued, it may sound like a contradiction, but there is a kind of escape pod that does look like this in the interstellar age, it is very similar to an escape pod, but the purpose is completely opposite.
"This is the exile pod!" Polyxenia frowned.
In the interstellar age, death is not the most terrible, being locked in an escape pod with the distress device removed, launched into space, and left to die in the most terrifying solitude, is the most terrible.
There is no sound in the cosmic vacuum, but most of the exiles have only lasted a few hours to start hearing sounds, and they are all kinds of sounds, sometimes like deep whispers, and maybe someone is banging on the bulkhead, as if something is trying to break in.
Being locked up in a trap of exile is like being locked up in the most terrible confinement, even the strongest person can't last long, fear will be infinitely amplified here, it won't take long for people to feel palpitations and suffocation, and finally be taken away by infinite fear.
Because it is so inhumane, the existence of the exile chamber is forbidden in the regular state, at least on the surface, it is illegal to do so. Only those lawless criminals, pirates would love such torturous things. They would put innocent people, even their own, in the penal chambers, looking helpless and frightened, just for the sake of pure amusement, and they even gave the exile chambers a nickname: Drifting Bottles.
The reason why it is called a drifting bottle is not only because the exile pod is very similar to a bottle drifting in the sea of space, but also because there will always be one or two people who are so lucky that they meet someone who happens to pass by and save them in the vast universe.
"It's a girl. Polyxenia looked at the rescued girl with undisguised anger in her eyes.
Who is so cruel?
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