A spaceship floats lonely in a void of absolute darkness.

Aside from the lighting inside the ship, and the glow from the engines, no light was observed.

Inside the spaceship, a human man with straight black hair, straight black eyebrows, and wheat-colored skin was lying flat on the deck of the spaceship. His eyes were hollow and glazed. His limbs were spread out, and he didn't move for a long time.

Some people say that life can be boiled down to two simple choices: either be busy surviving or rush to die. And for the man at this moment, life and death seem to be meaningless, or not so important.

At least, that's how he's feeling most genuinely right now.

……

"Gross!! Puff~Puff~Puff~"

From one of the safety seats in the ship's cabin, there was a series of hair-raising vomiting sounds.

The Volcano Ball General was finally about to wake up, but none of this could disturb a ripple in Yuan Haochen's inner world.

Up to now, Yuan Haochen has been awake for a long time, but he has never been relieved from the impact of the dream.

……

Volcano's eyelids twitched violently, teeth clenched together, and facial muscles twitched from time to time.

It is obvious that he, like Yuan Chen, is deep in the cage of fainting, engaged in a fierce battle with nightmares, and is about to break through the last line between virtual and reality.

"Ahh

After a long time, after a long roar, the Volcano Ball General finally opened his eyes slowly, and his vision was slowly recovering, and he shook his head hard, looking around in great confusion.

After a moment of confusion, he finally remembered: [This is the world outside the universe......]

The Volcano Ball General turned his body with difficulty, he had already seen Yuan Haochen lying on the deck, but he didn't have the ability to get up and go over to check.

【You...... It's okay......]

Yuan Haochen did not answer this question.

How long have we been unconscious...... It feels terrible...... I felt like I had been trapped in a dream for a long, long time. 】

General Volcano Ball continued to mumble to himself.

[But I know that we shouldn't be in a coma for too long, otherwise it ......]

"It's 3 days, 21 hours and 42 minutes."

Yuan Haochen's eyes finally jumped slightly, and then slowly closed again, and said very calmly.

[3 days, 21 hours, 42 minutes? Is this the time I faint? General Volcano asked.

"No, it's the time it takes for the ship to break through the edge of the cosmic horizon." Yuan Haochen replied, "You fainted for a little longer......

[You've been awake for a long time? You okay? General Volcano finally struggled to prop up half of his body with his arms and asked with difficulty.

Yuan Haochen did not answer again.

[Anyway, it's a miracle that we finally arrived outside the universe safely...... In fact, I was ready to sacrifice. 】

General Volcano Ball couldn't remember exactly when he fell into a fainting, and the whole process from crossing orbit 66 to breaking through the edge of the cosmic horizon was like a dream. Of course, he couldn't bear the pressure early on, and even the starting point in the dream after fainting seemed infinitely blurred.

Regardless, they managed to break free from the encirclement of the "Grey Zone" and miraculously crossed the riotous energy flow in the 66th Rotary Orbit of the [Space-Time Gate].

[What's the situation now?] 】

General Volcano Ball interrogated the ship's AI through his brainwaves, and he had noticed the endless darkness around the ship, which was unlike anything he had ever been exposed to, and it creeped him out.

Zizi Di Di ~

The spaceship AI was quick to respond:

The spacecraft is operating normally, with a relative speed of 2,623.7 million km/s (equivalent to 8,745.67 times the speed of light in three-dimensional space);

Air composition: Oxygen 40.1%, Nitrogen 43.9%, Carbon dioxide 5.6%, Helium 1.2%, ......

Air pressure: 100.2% of standard air pressure;

Temperature: 29.6 degrees Celsius;

……

[Relative speed 2,623.7 million km/s!!] General Volcano Ball was frightened by this value, [Is the spaceship constantly moving away from our universe?] 】

"Spaceships are indeed constantly moving away from our cosmic ......"

Yuan Haochen finally spoke again, he began to adjust his emotions, and slowly sat up.

[It's good if you're okay. General Volcano Ball breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, [Can you be a little more detailed? 】

"It's like a satellite orbiting a star or a planet." After a pause, Hara got up from the deck and continued to General Volcano Ball as he walked to his safety chair, "The spaceship is orbiting the universe we were born into. Beyond this universe, our universe is like a celestial body with a huge mass, and although we leave her embrace, its gravitational effect is still there, and it always pulls our ship......"

[However, if this is the case, should our position be roughly constant from the distance of the universe (the Volcano Ball generals are referring to their own universe)?] Volcano Ball General asked thoughtfully.

"No, the spacecraft is traveling relatively fast, and we are escaping the gravitational constraints of the universe, or rather, the distance we are at now is not yet the orbit of the spacecraft's speed." Hara brought a bottle of pure warm water to the Volcano Ball General, and then turned his head to stare out the porthole into the empty, dark, and lonely unknown deep space.

[I see. General Volcano Ball understood in an instant.

Yuan Haochen continued to explain: "However, we don't know what the escape velocity of our universe is, in the space outside the universe, some of the laws of physics still exist, but some have changed, so even if we know the actual total mass of the universe, the calculation of the escape velocity is different from the space algorithm within the universe." ”

PS: To make an analogy, if we don't consider the time constraints, our universe is like the center point of a snail shell, and the spaceship that Yuan Chen is riding on will spiral and expand outward like the edge line of a snail shell. Conversely, as in the case of the Earth's satellite, if the speed of the spacecraft continues to decrease, it will be constantly pulled back to the edge of her horizon by the gravitational pull of the universe.

[What is the approximate distance we are from the edge of the horizon now?] General Volcano Ball asked again.

"After a one-way space jump, we are about 8.95 billion light-years away from the edge of the cosmic horizon in a straight line. Of course, this value is still far from the farthest radius of 46 billion light-years reached by the Creator Civilization Science Fleet. ”

[A journey into the unknown...... Our universe is so great, even at a distance of 8.95 billion light years, its gravitational pull is still working on us! By the way, is the ship still accelerating? 】

The Volcano Ball General sighed, and then asked worriedly.

"I've ordered the acceleration to stop, and at the moment the ship is flying by inertia."

Yuan Haochen stopped the acceleration of the spaceship as soon as he had just awakened and regained his mobility.

Their trip to the universe this time was completely unplanned, not a scientific exploration.

If they hadn't been forced to the death line by the "Gray Zone", they wouldn't have been tortured and appeared here.

Now they must carefully consider the question of how to survive beyond this infinitely empty universe.

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