8: Another Earth
It's just that he doesn't like to talk very much.
Either you are in a daze with your eyes open, or you are sleeping.
Zhang Fan looked at his eyes, silent as death.
"I'm afraid this man has suffered some kind of huge blow." Zhang Fan thought to himself, but any normal person would not have such eyes.
On the twenty-eighth day of sailing, the transport began to slow down.
Zhang Fan woke up from lying on a chair and saw that the young man who had been lying down had finally changed places.
He was standing in front of the porthole, motionless looking out into the darkness of space.
Zhang Fan walked up to him and whispered, "You finally got up." ”
The man nodded and said, "Did the stargate close when you shuttled?" ”
"Yes, how do you know? You were still unconscious. ”
The man's eyes were still unwavering, and he said flatly, "I feel it, we are already in another universe." ”
"What? Another universe? Zhang Fan was surprised, he had only heard of parallel universes, and had never heard of anyone there.
The man nodded and said:
"Yes, the Lorentz Star Gate is disconnected halfway, and the matter in the wormhole will either return to the entrance or be transferred to other universes, and there is no other way out."
"How do you know?" Zhang Fan asked.
"It's common sense." After the man finished speaking lightly, he turned around and walked straight towards the cockpit, and Zhang Fan hurriedly followed.
Old man Jiang and Xiao Hibiscus were operating the transport ship in the cockpit to slow down, and when they saw Zhang Fan and the young man coming in together, Old Man Jiang was slightly surprised, and Xiao Hibiscus greeted politely:
"Big brother, are you up?"
It seems that because Hibiscus has been taking good care of him these days, the man actually smiled at Hibiscus and nodded.
Zhang Fan realized that this young man was usually expressionless, which made people only feel serious when he looked at it, but now when he smiled like this, a trace of sickly paleness appeared on his face.
He walked to the porthole, and a ray of light from the stars shone on his face, making it even paler.
"That little bright spot is the earth." He pointed to a flickering point of light in the distance.
"Earth?" Zhang Fan's eyes widened at the same time, and they all went to the porthole to watch.
"Yes, that star is called the Sun, and this is the solar system, the cradle of human birth."
"Oh my God......" Zhang Fan was extremely excited, and for a while he actually forgot the fact that this was another universe.
Old man Jiang was also very excited, and the little hibiscus jumped up.
At this time, Alan and Fei Buyuan were also attracted by the movement of the cockpit, and saw that the place they were going to was actually the earth, and Allen, who had been silent, walked around the cockpit excitedly, because the portholes were occupied by other people, and he couldn't squeeze into the window.
And Liu Cai, the unlucky star thief, was lying quietly in a corner, dying.
After the excitement, Old Man Jiang and Alan stayed in the cockpit to continue the operation, while the others returned to the cargo hold.
Zhang Fan sat down across from the young man and asked, "Can you tell us your name?" ”
"Xu Zhen." The young man said his name plainly.
"Xu Zhen?" Zhang Fan pondered for a moment, this name is somewhat familiar.
"You are?" Fei Buyuan, who was next to him, asked cautiously, "Captain Xu of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force?" ”
"Hmm."
When Fei Buyuan heard the young man admit, he immediately stood up straight, gave Xu Zhen a military salute with a snap, and then turned on the repeater mode:
"Report to Captain Xu, I'm Zeta......"
Xu Zhen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I am no longer the captain of the dragon's tooth, and I have no public office, I am an ordinary person now, you don't have to be polite to me." ”
Zhang Fan then remembered that this was an amazing character in front of him.
He had heard earlier that when the clones attacked the last habitat of the human race, the Immortal Arm, Captain Xu of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force led the Dragon's Tooth to attack the clones' rear base, and then cooperated with the frontal army to flank the main force of the clones.
Not only did it defeat most of the clones, but it also pushed the battle line back to the Orion Arm, and established many strongholds in the Orion Arm, establishing a strategic bridgehead for the Human Legion.
After that counterattack, Dragon Tooth and Captain Xu of Dragon Tooth became a legendary figure who was all the rage.
Later, due to the subsidence of the fighting, the Dragon's Tooth Task Force gradually faded out of people's sight, but I didn't expect to meet this famous figure here.
Although Xu Zhen said that he was already an ordinary person, the people next to him didn't think so.
The aura on his body is too dazzling, even if it was only once.
"Captain Xu," Fei Buyuan rubbed his hands and said, "I've always wanted to join the dragon's tooth, but I can't find a way, you see......"
"I can't help you right now." Xu Zhen's answer was very crisp.
Fei Buyuan was a little embarrassed, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
The scene was a little awkward.
"Old Fei, don't think about this, let's worry about whether I can go back first." Zhang Fan played a round on the side.
"Yes, yes, I almost forgot, now in another universe." Fei Buyuan smiled awkwardly and took this step to go downhill.
Xiao Hibiscus may not have heard of Xu Zhen's glorious deeds, but listening to their conversation, it seems that he is a very incredible character, so he has been staring at Xu Zhen from the side, and his eyes flickered.
"Captain Xu," Zhang Fan asked, "Then why did you appear in Sabre Star?" Seems to be seriously injured? ”
Xu Zhen's eyes suddenly revealed a hint of fierceness, and then immediately dispersed.
He paused for a few seconds, and said flatly: "Don't ask me about it in the future, I'm not from the same world as you, and when I go back, I'll leave." ”
Zhang Fan expected that he wouldn't speak, and he wouldn't be surprised, but just listened to Xu Zhen's words......
"You seem to know we're going to be able to go back?" Zhang Fan asked.
"I don't know."
……
Two days later, the transport ship entered the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Everyone in the transport ship was huddled in front of the porthole of the cockpit, and in the center of the pupils in their eyes, there was a dark blue planet, Earth, floating.
"It's so beautiful......" Hibiscus looked stunned in front of the porthole.
Not only him, except for Xu Zhen's calm eyes, everyone else is full of little stars.
Zhang Fan is the same, the beauty of the planet in front of him is only better than that of his hometown Bibo Star.
It hangs in the depths of space, like a sapphire, fascinating.
Fei Buyuan was simply about to lose his son.
"Enter orbit around the earth." Xu Zhen reminded coldly on the side.
"Yes, yes, yes," Old Man Jiang hurriedly ran over to control the transport ship.
After entering the orbit around the earth, Hibiscus conducted a survey of the Earth's environment and discovered intelligent information without accident.
Earth's outer space is filled with various artificial satellites, as well as several slightly larger space bases.
"Probably at the middle level of the first-level civilization in the universe, except for the Earth's outer space, there seems to be no trace of human beings in other parts of the solar system." Hibiscus said as she scanned it.
Then she looked at the other data and said, "The Earth's gravity environment is high, and the temperature of the atmosphere is on the high side. ”
"Alright," said the old man Jiang, "I can't wait to go down, old man." ”
As he spoke, he maneuvered the transport ship and prepared to enter the Hohmann transfer orbit.
At this moment, Hibiscus suddenly said: "I received a radio band communication request, do you want to access it?" ”
Everyone looked at each other a few times, and they were all a little excited, and there was no doubt that this must be a communication from an earthling.
This was the first time that humans in the two universes shook hands.
"Access." Zhang Fan said.
A man's voice came from the cockpit:
"Unidentified aerial vehicle, you have entered the Earth Defense Identification Circle, please inform your place of departure, and the purpose of your coming to Earth, if you remain silent, we will take expulsion action."
Everyone didn't speak, and the call of the earthlings had the meaning of warning, and listening to the content of the speech, people knew that this was a flying machine that did not belong to the earth.
originally wanted Xu Zhen to reply, but he stood in front of the porthole and calmly looked at the earth outside, obviously not ready to take this fork.
Zhang Fan picked up the communicator, took a deep breath, tried to keep his tone as flat as possible, and replied:
"Hello, we are also human, our transport ship is in trouble and has requested to land on Earth."
The other party was silent for a while, as if discussing something, and after a while, the man's voice came again:
"Is it just a transport ship? Do you have any other companions? ”
"Yes, our ship is just a transport ship, and we have no other companions." Zhang Fan replied.
"Where are you from?"
Zhang Fan thought for a moment and said, "We come from another universe, but we are all human beings just like you. ”
There was silence again, and it took a long time for a reply to come:
"Please tell me your name, as well as the current personnel of your ship."
"My name is Zhang Fan, and we have seven people now, one of whom is wounded."
"Okay, allow landing, be sure to maintain communication during the landing, and do not fly at high speed after your ship enters the atmosphere, we will send a pilot plane, please follow the pilot plane to land in the designated area."
"Okay, no problem." Zhang Fan replied.
"Finally, please note that during and after landing, you must cooperate with the inspection and arrangement of the ground personnel, and must not make offensive acts or intentions, otherwise you will be attacked."
"Understood." Zhang Fan thought to himself, are all earthlings so verbose?
Old man Jiang steered the transport ship all the way down to orbit and slowly entered the earth's atmosphere.
After descending into the stratosphere, six aircraft appeared, surrounding the transport ship from top to bottom, front, left and right, and flying straight in one direction.
The six aircraft emitted a loud roar, completely different from the quiet propulsion of the transport.
But Zhang Fan likes that kind of flying machine very much in his heart.
Xiao Hibiscus had never seen this kind of flying machine, so he asked Old Man Jiang curiously what it was.
Old man Jiang was well-informed and said: "This thing is called a fighter jet, a very low-level flying tool, and human beings on the earth should not have broken through the barrier of controllable nuclear fusion at present." ”
"Oh~" Hibiscus nodded and said, "No wonder it's so noisy." ”