13 There is no way back

"Gao, please come to the communications room." Miller's voice came from the loudspeaker on the bulkhead, not the entire space station public announcement, and Miller apparently found Gao Jie through the room camera.

Saying goodbye to the two friends, Gao Jie went straight to the communication room. She understands very well the loss of Yazi and Wang Chen just now, these two young people have a good impression of each other as early as two years of space training, compared to Gao Jie, who already has a family and children, the two of them have a better vision for the future, so they are not enough to prepare for the upcoming end in five years, and their emotions have fallen into a trough. In fact, Gao Jie's mood is not much better, the mood of everyone on the entire space station is not much better, and the mood of the people on Earth who learned the truth about the invasion of the Nt fleet is not much better...... Almost all of them are desperately trying to find a solution to the crisis or, like Gao Jie, waiting for the right moment to find a place for themselves to function.

And now, Gao Jie understands that the time has not yet come for him to play a role—maybe this day will never come, maybe tomorrow will come.

If that day really comes, will Gao Jie choose to accept it and face it bravely, or will he choose to avoid it and leave completely?

……

"What do you say to those two?" As soon as Gao Jie entered the communication room, he heard Miller ask.

"You're spying on me?" Gao Jie asked a little coldly, she looked around the communication room, and saw no one else, and the three correspondents were not there.

"I'm sorry, I just don't want a public broadcast, that would make people think too much." Miller apologized very frankly, much to the relief of Gao Jie - Miller had calmed down and was very sensible, so Gao Jie gave up continuing to refute him.

Gao Jie handed out his PDA, "Do you want this?" ”

"Thank you very much." Miller took the PDA and connected it to the station's communication terminal with an adapter cable, "Gao, do you have an email to send to the Earth family?" This time make an exception for you to send. ”

Gao Jie was a little surprised, she didn't expect the commander to send an email for her, but Gao Jie also quickly thought: Miller's child has a close relationship with his relatives on Earth, and there are some selfishness in it. But in any case, she was overjoyed to be able to break the communication regulations and send the information back to Earth.

"AI, give this PDA permission to transmit messages." Miller said to the communicator's screen.

"Executed, Commander."

Miller turned to Gao Jie again: "I won't check the content of the message, you know what not to say." But you have to know that the other side of the earth will definitely check the information inside, and you don't want to trouble yourself and your family. ”

"Please rest assured." Gao Jie said sincerely, and then manipulated the PDA to move the email he wrote and the recordings of his previous conscious exchanges with the N-star people to the transmission bar - the information was transmitted directly from Gao Jie's PDA to Earth. Before the transfer begins, the AI suddenly pops up a biometric verification request, and Miller passes the verification with his fingerprint, and the transfer begins immediately. This left Gao Jie with a hint of confusion, but then her attention was drawn to the progress bar - the AI listed the recordings as limited transmission, which was expected to take 135 minutes to complete, and Gao Jie's emails to Earth were left behind. However, watching the progress bar slowly move forward, Gao Jie's inner satisfaction also arises spontaneously. The two of them quietly looked at the communication screen in the communication room, until the progress bar reached 10%, and Gao Jie locked the screen of the PDA (transmission continued), and it could not be unlocked without a password.

"Gao, go get some rest...... Ah, by the way, I'm going to find a correspondent to come over here and be on duty, I'm going to go again...... Take a trip to the office. With that, Miller propped up his body and walked out, and Gao Jie was ready to get up and leave according to his words. However, the moment Miller stepped out of the hatch, his body fell to the ground as if crushed by a heavy object!

"Miller!" Gao Jie immediately pounced and wanted to help Miller up, but was stunned by the hot touch on his hand - it turned out that Miller was having a high fever, and the temperature had exceeded 39 degrees, and he almost fell into a coma. “AI！” Gao Jie shouted to the top of the hallway, and the AI almost replied: "The commander has been detected to be in abnormal health, the nearest male member has been called, and the staff on duty in the infirmary has been called to be on duty." ”

Two figures ran over from the other end of the corridor, Wang Chen and Yazi, who were called over by AI. "I'll come, Gao Jie, you take a hand!" Wang Chen set up Miller on one side, Gao Jie took advantage of the situation to set up the other side, and the two of them carried the commander in the direction of the medical cabin, and Yazi followed.

He hadn't gone far when Miller opened his eyes slightly, groaned and turned his head back. Gao Jie understood what he meant, and immediately turned around and shouted to Yazi: "Go find a correspondent and go to the communication room to be on duty!" ”

“はい！ (Yes!) The bud immediately ran in the opposite direction. Miller nodded reassuringly, and his body drooped again.

The three medical staff in the station's medical module were already in place (from Russia, Germany, Brazil - women, in addition to the station's medical staff, they are also responsible for logistics, but they have another important role, which will be mentioned later), and they took Miller and put him on the medical bed, using the instrument to do a full body examination.

Gao Jie and Wang Chen have been waiting outside the cabin, during which some space station members came to inquire about the situation, and they also learned about Miller's coma from the AI, and the two could not answer in detail, so everyone could only continue to wait outside the cabin. After a long time, just as some not-so-optimistic speculation began to appear in the crowd, the Brazilian medical attendant came out of the cabin and told everyone that Miller was only weak due to excessive fatigue and insufficient diet, and that he could recover quickly and not worry about the spread of the virus on the space station.

Hearing this result, everyone also breathed a sigh of relief, and left in twos and threes, Wang Chen wanted to return to his post, and Gao Jie detoured to the communication room to confirm the transmission time. A correspondent was already on duty here, and Gao Jie checked the progress bar on the PDA: it would take 35 minutes for the recording to end, and then her email.

"Well, when the transfer is complete, I'll send it to you, or contact you." The correspondent smiled and said, "Even if there is no one on duty here, no matter what information is transmitted now, it needs the biological information of the commander to verify it." ”

Gao Jie smiled and thanked her, but the correspondent's words deepened the confusion that had previously surfaced in her mind - could it be that Miller had been authorized to have the supreme authority of the space station?

It was useless to think too much, and Gao Jie returned to his cabin. About two hours later, her PDA was personally returned by the correspondent. It is believed that in the next hour, the email will reach the receiving station on Earth, and within a day at the earliest, her husband and children will receive this message from Jupiter's orbit - she has even sketched in her mind the image of her husband and children smiling and reading the email......

In the middle of the night, the date changed to November 20, and it has been 12 days since the members were stationed on the space station.

Most of them had already rested according to Earth time, and Commander Miller staggered to the communications room, and Sylka followed him into the communications room, where the British correspondent had been waiting for a long time.

Miller sat in his chair — rather slumped in his chair — "Tell me the results so far, and it's better not to have zero gains." ”

"Unfortunately, there is no gain." Sylka said dejectedly, her face very ugly.

Miller shook his head impatiently, but quickly exhaled again, waved his hand, and said, "It's not your problem, if it really doesn't work, change the method." ”

Silka looked up: "Mike and Lucien have finished reading Jane Eyre, but the sentences in it are basically certain that they cannot be used as voice-activated commands, and maybe some sentences still need to be converted or something...... We're going to try Modern English works like Wuthering Heights and Robinson Crusoe. ”

"Okay, please continue." Miller drooped his eyelids and said, "Oh, if you have any good ideas, just put them up with them, you can't waste your Ph.D. in linguistics." ”

"It's already being done." Silka said with a little pride.

Miller nodded, gesturing to Silka to go to rest early, and the latter complied. After Sylka goes out, Miller orders the AI to close the hatch. "Is there any information on Earth?" He asked the British correspondent.

"There's a piece that requires your bio information to unlock in order to read."

"Scan my retina, AI. Alas! This supreme privilege is still very troublesome. Miller complained. The unlocked message was immediately presented on the screen, it was a very short piece of content, and somehow, Miller had a bad premonition when he saw it.

"What's written on it?" The British correspondent consciously did not look at the screen and asked curiously. He saw Miller's face tense instantly, and the curiosity in his heart was overshadowed by worry and fear. "Is it bad news? Commander? ”

The terrible silence lasted for a moment before Miller spoke: "We have no way back. ”

"What do you mean?"

"N consciousness didn't lie to us, the Earth side has confirmed the invasion of the Nt fleet!"

——

From the moment the information about the invasion of the Nt fleet was transmitted back to Earth four days ago, all the astronomical observers on the Earth and in Earth orbit, including the "Peace-2" space station in Mars orbit, have entered a full working state, repeatedly searching and verifying to find out whether there are really three intelligent and civilized starships approaching Earth. The key search range is set within 3 light years, because based on the "Nt fleet arrives in 5 years" as stated by the consciousness of the N star, even if the Nt fleet can really fly at the speed of light, it must slow down after entering within 5 light years, so as not to pass over the earth and even the solar system due to the speed being too fast, so it is very likely that these three spacecraft have entered within 3 light years, and the speed is slowing down.

When all the observation instruments started the search at full speed, a detection report from the China Asteroid Risk Prediction Center attracted great attention. The report shows that an asteroid is approaching the solar system at an ultra-high cosmic speed, 7095547865668 kilometers from Earth (about 0.75 light-years, but from the time it was observed, it is still about 0.6 light-years away), about 18% of the speed of light (this speed is too fast for common asteroids), and has the risk of passing by the Earth, with an impact rate of about 0.0000072% to 0.0048%, and is listed as " Potentially threatening celestial bodies". Using a newly upgraded telescope provided by the International Scientific Optical Network, astronomers have made thousands of attempts to capture images of the asteroid. When a computerized picture was revealed, an astonishing fact was discovered: "asteroids" were not one, but three very close together at the same speed and direction! The dimensions of these three "asteroids" are exactly the same: about 500 meters long and 70 meters wide, and the height and width are basically the same......

There's no need to explain, the answer is just around the corner.

- These three "asteroids" are the Nt fleet that mankind has been looking for and trying to confirm.

"There's no way back."