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Arcturus, the airspace where the Mass Effect repeater is located.

"What a big ......" Kaos leaned on the porthole, staring brightly at the behemoth suspended in the void.

Although he had seen such a giant device in history books and related materials, he was shocked when he saw it.

It resembles a large silver and blue "key", with the "keytooth" parted from top to bottom, and the "keyhandle" embedded in a large blue light cluster that constantly tumbles and emits countless blue electric rays of light.

This behemoth, which may be the creation of prehistoric civilizations, is the "Mass Effect Repeater", which plays an important role in the development of human astronautics.

They pair up in pairs between relatively distant galaxies, and when someone activates one of them, they will instantly reach the other neighborhood through a movement method called "zero-mass channel", but because this "teleportation" has a large deviation, the error range of its "landing point" is strictly forbidden for ships to stay in order to prevent collisions.

In addition to the large mass repeaters that connect two distant galaxies, there are also some small mass repeaters that connect neighboring galaxies, and at the other end of these repeaters, regardless of the number of stars and planets, all have at least one planet suitable for humans, or oxygen-depleting multicellular carbon-based organisms, so far.

Although some sects claim that it was a gift from God, the scientific community and most of the public agree that it was built by the original owner of the Martian ruins.

However, the end of a race with such advanced technology turned out to be complete extinction, and it is further inferred that it is this convenient "mass effect channel" that allows them to provoke some kind of completely unstoppable enemy, and will be tracked all the way by the other party and finally wiped out, so when any mass repeater with an unknown destination is activated, the first fleet of the Star Alliance will send a sub-fleet with sufficient combat power to investigate.

And Lechtm Claude was once a captain of this "Deep Space Expedition Fleet", perhaps because as the number of Star Alliance's exploration of Mass Effect repeaters increased, the expected enemy never appeared, and the First Fleet continued to reduce the size of the adventure fleet, making excellent soldiers like Lechtm shine in other positions.

However, the cruiser "Naples" under Lechtem's original command will naturally not follow him away, and the new flagship will be built after the situation of Europa VII is stabilized, which is said to stimulate industrial development and economic circulation, as well as enhance the sense of identity of the inhabitants, but the result is that they now have to take a migrant ship to the Europa system, and the target Europa VII is the seventh planet of the Europa system.

To build a new colony star, the colony ship, engineering ship and scientific research ship are the minimum standard, the huge colonial ship will land directly on the surface to temporarily provide a living environment for immigrants, it will be the prototype of the future colony star capital, the scientific research ship is responsible for exploring various resource reserves on the star globe and even in the galaxy, and the engineering ship is responsible for the construction of the planet and even the space station as its name suggests, it has the equivalent of a destroyer-level armament, if there are dangerous local creatures can also be cleared.

Dangerous creatures, hehehe......

At this thought, the corners of Kaos's mouth curled.

"Yo, Kevin, are you so happy to see the mass repeater?" With a swipe on the door, Zhou walked into the room and teased with a slight smile.

Seeing the quality repeater, seeing the big stuff, little boys love big things.

Such a simple logic chain Kaos understands it as soon as he hears it, but as a young boy, he can't understand it even if he has a powerful ability.

"Lechtem is still angry?" Kaos blinked at Zhou, "Or did I get into a lot of trouble?" ”

He naturally knew that Lechtem was not angry, and there was no trouble with the superability, but he was busy with his foot hitting the back of the head because of General Williams's temporary burden, and occasionally came back to eat together.

But by the same token, it is impossible for the "little boy Kaos" to know, in his eyes, that is, the adoptive father has been in a hurry for nearly a week, and almost does not appear in front of him.

"Well, wait until he tells you himself," Zhou smiled a little narrowly, "But now that you're about to enter [Subspace], I have to make sure you stay in the hibernation pod." ”

"Oh......" Kaos lowered his eyebrows and walked to the hibernation pod in the corner of the cabin.

The hibernation pod is not the same thing as the "frozen hibernation pod" in science fiction centuries ago, no, it can even be said that it is not a level, compared to the kind of practice that cannot exceed the speed of light, and can only freeze and sleep humans to stay up for time, in the era of mass effect that can easily exceed the speed of light, the "hibernation pod" is no different from an ordinary bed, and its function is to protect the minds of the passengers on board when the spacecraft passes through the "zero mass channel".

Although the relevant information is classified to the outside world, because Lechterm himself is a member of the expedition fleet, he knows part of the content, which probably means that if he is not dormant when passing through the "zero mass passage", there is a very low probability that he will go crazy, not in the conventional sense, but they will insist that they have seen "countless eyes", "overlapping bubbles", heard "indescribably beautiful music", etc., if someone tries to refute these things, They will become angry and even attack each other, and eventually the group will have to retire and recuperate.

In this regard, Kaos can only say...... He didn't want to have anything to do with those guys at all.

Click-click-

After the two hibernation pods were closed at the same time, Zhou said "good night" through the built-in communicator.

Hello Night? The whole process of passing through the passage only takes 10 minutes at most, right?

Kaos replied with a sneering "um", then saw a blue light blooming outside the window, then the porthole turned translucent on its own, slightly obscuring the outside, and then a relaxing fragrance and subtle soothing music emanated from the sleep pod.

As expected, the sleep aid function of this sleep pod is completely useless to me, do you want to pretend to be asleep? But Zhou is very shrewd, and it is difficult to explain the purpose if he pretends to be asleep, or just let them think that they are gifted and not affected by the weak hypnotic effect?

In the midst of his thoughts, Kaos felt a slight jolt of the ship's hull, followed by a strange feeling of weightlessness.

After a slight hesitation, he simply closed his eyes and did not look out the window.

After all, the probability of a mortal seeing something can be said to be "extremely low", and he can only be said to be "inevitable".