7: Trek Time and Space
“0042!”
Hibiscus called loudly, but no sound came.
The particle railguns were still bombarding the battleships, driving them everywhere.
Zhang Fan already understood what was happening, this was the opportunity that 0042 had exchanged for his life, and he hurriedly shouted:
"Old man Jiang, don't be stunned, quickly enter the Star Gate."
Old man Jiang hurriedly pressed the accelerator lever deeply, and the transport ship flew straight towards the star gate.
Hibiscus ran to the cargo compartment at the back and leaned on the porthole to look out of the platform.
Zhang Fan looked at the girl's back and couldn't help but think: Paying such a price for freedom, I don't know if I will regret it in the future?
The moment the transport ship entered the stargate, the stars in the distance suddenly flew in front of them, all the stars emitted a dazzling blue light, and when they looked back, these stars flew away, emitting a faint red light.
Star Gate shuttle is like this, Zhang Fan has long been used to it.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and finally came out of Saber Star, but those brothers ......
Before Zhang Fan could think about it, the transport ship was out of the shuttle state. The starry sky around it was back up.
"Did you get to the Zeta system?" Zhang Fan asked.
Old man Jiang was looking around through the porthole, while Fei Buyuan next to him shook his head and said:
"It's a big problem."
"What's wrong?" Zhang Fan also leaned on the porthole and looked out.
I saw a sea of stars.
"This is not the Zeta Galaxy," Fei Buyuan said.
"We didn't finish the shuttle, I guess the stargate over there suddenly closed while we were weaving, causing the wormhole to collapse and push us out"
"Well, it's a big problem." Zhang Fan also saw that this was really not the Zeta Galaxy.
At this time, Hibiscus also returned to the cockpit from the cargo hold, his eyes red.
Seeing everyone, she smiled reluctantly and asked, "Have you arrived?" ”
"No," Old Man Jiang looked at for a moment, then turned back and said, "We seem to be near an open star cluster, but I don't recognize where this is." ”
"What's going on?" Hibiscus asked.
Zhang Fan replied, "The shuttle was interrupted, and we exited the Star Gate halfway. ”
Hibiscus's tears welled up at once, indicating that 0042 should have met with an accident.
Fei Buyuan, who was next to him, gently patted Xiao Hibiscus on the shoulder, wanting to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say.
After a while, Hibiscus asked, "It shouldn't be far from the Zeta Galaxy, this gate only leads to that side." ”
Old man Jiang shook his head and said, "If the shuttle is interrupted, the Star Gate will send us anywhere in this universe." ”
Zhang Fan also sighed, as Old Man Jiang said, the shuttle is interrupted, and it may even appear in other universes.
"Check the star map and see if you can locate our coordinates." Zhang Fan said.
Xiao Hibiscus immediately went to the main control console to inquire, and the result was, as Zhang Fan expected, it was impossible to determine the current location of the transport ship.
That means that at least there's a good chance they're no longer in the galaxy.
"Who has encountered this before?"
Zhang Fan shook his head, and Fei Buyuan also said that he had not encountered it, let alone Xiao Hibiscus.
"A friend of mine has met me," said Allen, who has been a transparent person, this time he said, "My friend disappeared after the Stargate was accidentally closed, and never reappeared. ”
"How long?" Zhang Fan asked.
"Well......" Alan recalled, "more than eighty years." ”
That's a really bad answer.
Everyone fell silent, and finally it was Old Man Jiang who spoke and said:
"Hibiscus, check if there is a planet nearby that can land, the best one is livable."
"Okay, Grandpa Jiang."
Zhang Fan was a little upset, and after watching Xiao Hibiscus busy in the main console for a while, he turned around and walked to the rear cabin, and glanced back through the porthole, only to see that not far behind the transport ship, there was a space distorted into a sphere, and the surface of the sphere was densely dotted with starlight.
"That should be a break in time and space," Zhang Fan said to himself, "I wonder if I can shuttle back from there?" ”
On second thought, the stargate over there has been closed, and even if it hasn't been closed, it's still a saber star to go back, so it's better not to go back.
He found a place to sit and close his eyes.
What if I can't go back?
Kaizi, Xiaolei, Xiaopang, where are they now?
On the Blue Waves......
A lot of thoughts and memories came up together, making Zhang Fan feel panicked.
At this time, Fei Buyuan also walked over from the cockpit and reached out to hand Zhang Fan a package of nutritious rations.
Zhang Fan felt a little hungry at this time, so he tore open the package and ate it, which tasted like chewing wax.
"Don't worry, there's always a way." Fei Buyuan may have seen Zhang Fan's thoughts, and comforted Zhang Fan while eating rations.
"Do you really think there's a way?" Zhang Fan asked rhetorically, and the two of them smiled bitterly at the same time.
"Can you give me a pack of rations too?"
Suddenly, Zhang Fan turned his head to look over, it turned out that the short man had woken up, and he was watching the two of them gnawing on rations.
Fei Buyuan smashed the rations on the ground, strode up to the short man, grabbed him by the collar, and began to shoot the bow left and right with the big slap of the fan, and said while fanning:
"Rations, rations, I'll make your rations ......"
After slapping dozens of times, Fei Buyuan threw the short man to the ground and said:
"If it weren't for you, everyone would be trapped in this place? Do you still have the face to have rations? ”
Zhang Fan also walked over, squatted next to the short man, and asked, "Who are you?" ”
"I'm ......" The short man's face was swollen with a fan, and his speech was slurred.
Fei Buyuan glared at him and said viciously:
"Say it quickly, don't say throw it outside."
"I'm a star thief."
Fei Buyuan kicked him and said, "A thief is a thief, what kind of star thief, it seems that you are of high grade, right?" ”
The short man didn't speak, and Zhang Fan asked him, "What's your name?" ”
"Liu Cai." The short man replied.
"Why did you pierce us when you were at Stargate?"
The short man Liu Cai rolled his eyes before saying, "It's more risky to go with you." ”
"Yo, do you still have a risk assessment?" Fei Buyuan said that he was going to kick again.
Zhang Fan hurriedly stopped him, turned back to Liu Cai and said:
"I don't care who you are, now we're all in the same boat, you honestly don't make trouble for us again, or I really won't care if you live or die, you know?"
Liu Cai nodded, indicating that he understood.
Zhang Fan stuffed a piece of ration in Liu Cai's mouth and asked him to chew it slowly.
Zhang Fan didn't tell Liu Cai about the current situation, because it was completely unnecessary.
But the person who had been lying on the corpse and never moved, Zhang Fan walked over and looked at it, and he was completely indistinguishable from a dead person.
I wanted to look over him to see if there was anything that would make him who he was, but I gave up thinking about it.
At this time, Old Man Jiang and Xiao Hibiscus Allen also came out of the cockpit, and as soon as they saw Liu Cai lying on the ground, Xiao Hibiscus immediately took a programmed weapon and turned into an electromagnetic gun ready to shoot.
Old man Jiang pressed the muzzle of the gun and persuaded Xiao Mu Hibiscus to calm down. Hibiscus threw down the gun and walked over to give another punch.
Zhang Fan and the others didn't stop him, anyway, Liu Cai deserved to suffer this beating.
"How's it going, did you find anything?"
"Well," Old Man Jiang nodded, and said, "There is a small star two units away from us, and it has eight large planets, one of which is solid in orbit in the habitable zone. ”
"How far away is that planet?" Zhang Fan asked.
"It's about exactly one unit away." Old man Jiang replied.
"Then let's go there first." Zhang Fan was finally relieved.
Old man Jiang said: "We just calculated, with the current fuel of the transport ship, we can only accelerate to a speed of 180,000 kilometers per hour, and then slide over, and there is no gravitational slingshot in the middle." ”
"180,000 kilometers." Zhang Fan calculated in his heart and said, "It will take more than a month to arrive, can't you hurry up?" ”
Old man Jiang shook his head and said, "We can't go any faster, if we don't have enough fuel to slow down, we will miss that planet." ”
"That's a month."
"It's just that there is a problem now," said the old man Jiang, "we don't have enough rations to eat for a month." ”
"How much is missing?"
"There's one person missing."
Everyone turned their attention to Liu Cai.
Liu Cai shuddered, and stumbled: "What do you want to do?" ”
"Do you want to starve to death or do you want to be thrown out and die?" Fei Buyuan asked.
Liu Cai shook his head vigorously and said, "I don't want to die, don't throw me out." ”
"But you're wasting food."
Liu Cai couldn't move his hands and feet, so he had to raise his chin and gesture to the person who had been lying on the corpse, saying:
"You can throw him out."
"it!" Fei Buyuan slapped Liu Cai again and said, "When death is dying, you still want to harm others." ”
Zhang Fan waved his hand, thinking that it was a human life, so he said:
"Forget it, a few of us take turns to eat a little less every day, give it to him, just don't starve to death."
After listening to Zhang Fan's words, Liu Cai almost cried, and hurriedly said thank you with tears in his eyes.
In the time that followed, the transport ship headed straight for the planet, and everyone waited patiently in the cabin.
Hibiscus said a lot about herself, she stayed in a petri dish for sixteen years, and when she came out, she was sent to Sabre Star, who had been in Saber Star for five years, and was twenty-one years old this year.
"Actually, I have memories from my childhood, when I was very young, but those memories were implanted in my brain, and around me, there are many clones who have the same childhood as me."
Hibiscus laughed as she spoke, but the smile couldn't hide the sadness.
Old man Jiang is still like that, every time he eats nutritious rations, it is his speech time, and he can always tell two hours of anecdotes about himself.
And Fei Buyuan smirked while listening every time. He also talked about his situation, born in a military family, grew up under his father's arrangement, and later went to join the army to fight with the clones.
And Liu Cai, under the coercion of Fei Buyuan, also said his life experience, which is almost the same as Fei Buyuan, an ancestral soldier and an ancestral thief.
In the first few days, everyone was quite active, relying on chatting to pass the time, but later, they all quieted down, and even Old Man Jiang had more time to sleep.
The cargo hold began to get quiet.
It wasn't until the tenth day that the man who had been lying on the corpse finally woke up.
This person woke up very weak, only opened his eyes slightly, and occasionally moved his fingers, but fortunately, Hibiscus was careful and the first to find him awake.
Everyone took good care of this person, and slowly after another two days, this person's complexion finally became much normal.