Chapter 333: The Thirty-Third Node Universe That Disappeared
Through Scarlett's narration, Hao Shen has a general understanding of some basic information.
For example, the three girls lying next to Scarlett, named Fili, Dale, and Usha, are young and excellent promising non-commissioned officers in the Resistance, serving as navigators, messengers, and co-captains on the Karatos, respectively. That's why they were able to survive the disintegration of the Karatos: their working area was the strongest part of the entire ship.
In fact, there is basically nothing to say about the Karatos, and the ship, which seems to have a legendary reputation among the rebels, is now just a mass of artistic fragments, and in the words of the system, no one present will be interested in it except Hao Shen. So when Scarlett told the glorious history of the Karatos, the Hao siblings and Lilith were basically in a state of distraction, and the system made two beeps, indicating that the relevant information had been stored in the database.
Soon, Scarlett got to the point, and the group cheered up and listened carefully.
“........ The front line of the rebels has reached a precarious level, shrinking the defensive line, it is necessary to recall the important combat forces outside, in order not to attract the attention of the Braider Corps, we cannot use the cross-universe level of wide-area broadcasting, so we can only send special teams to complete this task, this recall operation sent a total of fourteen squads, and the Karatos is also one of them. ”
"Wait, you say, this is a recall mission? Sending the legendary battleship out to do errands, are your decision-makers brain-pumping? ”
Hao Shen touched his head and felt a little unable to turn around. Earlier, Scarlett focused on this battleship, just like a husband and a man, there is no super combat power in the sky and no one in the ground, Hao Shen also took it for granted that the fall of the Karatos must have received some three-S-level orange mission, and he hated the battlefield after blocking thousands of troops, but he didn't expect that in the end it was actually doing errand work, isn't this the capsized ship in the sewer.
Good steel is used on the blade, and even a strategic idiot like Hao Shen understands this simple truth.
"There's a reason for that, of course, but ....."
Scarlett forced a smile and glanced at Catherine, who shook her head, her face leaking a little resentment and disappointment, "Those old immortals are still the same, they don't deserve it...... And then what? Since it's a recall mission, it shouldn't provoke a large-scale enemy army. ”
"Yes, probably not, but I still encountered it, and it was at least one enemy army with a reorganized fleet." A hint of resentment and helplessness flashed across Scarlett's face, "When we set off, everything was calm, with the stealth system and silent sailing, we successfully bypassed all the Braider regiment posts and blockades, but they still appeared in front of us, as if they had expected us to appear there, and knew our fleet and combat capabilities well, we had twelve frigates, but almost a face, the Karatos was alone. ”
Catherine's brows condensed deeply, and she raised her hand to stop Scarlett's words, her expression was heavy and serious to the extreme, and it took a long time to squeeze out two words between her teeth.
"Mole? Anyone in the rebels has defected to the Braider Legion? ”
Scarlett laughed miserably, and the answer was self-evident.
"It can't be!" Catherine jumped up at once, clenched her fists and walked around the room, her face blue and about to drip water, "How dare they?" Have they forgotten who exterminated their families, their planets, and even their universe? ”
Hao Shen hurriedly waved his hand and called the doctor who was waiting outside in case he was unprepared, for fear that this interstellar agent would be excited for a while, but Catherine was just crazy for a while, and then changed to a sneer, "Look, I said a long time ago, if you don't control the entire council, you can't control the entire rebel army, and now the old guy should regret it." I bet the rout of the rebels must have something to do with the moles! ”
So, did you think of it a long time ago or didn't think of it at all? Hao Shen just hugged his arms and watched the woman change her face, gritting her teeth for a while, and sneering for a while, probably no one except Scarlett knew what she was thinking, of course, maybe Scarlett didn't know, because Hao Shen saw that Scarlett's eyes were a little sloppy: she was in a daze.
This is really an interesting discovery, the captain of a legendary battleship, a female general who dominates the world, can actually be in a daze? This poured a large mosaic on her originally alert and wise image.
In the end, Hao Shen interrupted Catherine's conjecture and said: "So, you are all exposed in the course of action, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of legions and firing volleys, and finally running to Mars in a panic?" Oh, the planet you crashed on. ”
Scarlett was suddenly shocked, and resolutely said, "Of course not!" We fought our way out of the encirclement, and despite the heavy losses, the Karatos lived up to its prestige, and with the last of its strength, it carried us out of the thirteenth node universe! Unfortunately, there was a teleportation problem with us, and something strange happened - the Karatos slipped into the void entirely, and we didn't make it to the Thirty-Third Node Universe......"
Hao Shen nodded expectedly, after the Karatos was controlled by the information disturbance phenomenon, it was strange that it could jump, but this kind of thing is still not good to take the blame on the spot, Hao Shen interjected perfunctorily: "Ha, there are always one or two times when the Void Jump is unreliable, after all, it is high-tech." Ancient marksmen still had time to miss...... Right? ”
As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden silence in the ward, and everyone looked at Hao Shen strangely, as if they didn't quite understand why this 'god' suddenly interjected at this time.
Catherine thought about the god's usual style, and said cautiously, "Great God Hao...... Well, do you know something? ”
Hao Shen was immediately shocked: Damn, she saw it?
Or the system fluttered down next to Hao Shen, and the urn interrupted angrily: "What do you know, he just has nothing to say and wants to raise his head, Captain Scarlett, you go on, I'm very curious about the strange phenomenon you said." At the same time, the voice of the system in the spiritual connection resounded in Hao Shen's brain: "Are you so weak in heart?" It's impossible to jump off track, and you don't forget the basic elements of crossing......"
Hao Shen closed his mouth, his face full of embarrassment.
Hao Shen's strange reaction didn't make a few people pause for too long, and Scarlett looked at the system in surprise for a while, a little puzzled whether it was the ball itself talking or someone talking through the ball, but these obviously didn't matter: there were too many strange people and things in this house, and it was obviously not appropriate to pay attention to such details now. She calmed her tone and began to focus on what the system was asking.
"It was a strange phenomenon that I had never seen before...... The Karatos' transverse engine is always the newest model in the Coalition, and it has never gone wrong, but this one...... But I'm not even sure if that jump was a success or a failure......"
As one of the Resistance's most important flagships, the Karatos has flown many complex and dangerous missions – within its core circle of defense – including, of course, many trans-space voyages, and its captain, Scarlett, is a legend within the Resistance, and naturally experienced and battle-hardened. Together, she was able to give orders accurately, even when the Bred Legion was besieged and almost knocked out of her head, and the Karatos and its elite of the resistance at all levels were able to carry it out with precision.
But this time, when the transatonic voyage began, Scarlett immediately sensed that something was wrong.
"A normal cosmic leap is like a translation, if the universe and the target universe are separated by a line, we are like moving from one end of the line to the other...... "The process should be extremely smooth, there will be no bumps, no loss, as if the universe is changing, not our ship." ”
Hao Shen nodded, the so-called crossing the universe is not really crossing any world barrier, but modifying its own feature code to be consistent with another universe, what Scarlett is talking about is a standard cross-universe voyage.
"But this time, it was like we'd fallen into a big hole! We can feel a gliding sensation, like we are falling endlessly down a pipe. Scarlett's face changed suddenly, "All the sensors on the Karatos were disconnected at the same time, we couldn't get any information from the outside world, and we couldn't control the battleship to make any movements, and at that moment, it was as if we were cut off from the world, and the Karatos became an island floating in the endless void." We tried to open the optical port, but all we saw was a chaotic darkness. But the most terrifying thing is not that we close our eyes and ears, but a kind of loneliness and emptiness that comes from the depths of our hearts, as if we are in a place outside the law where there is no silence...... Seriously, during that time, if it weren't for the artificial gravity of the Karatos still running, and the ship's main engine still reminding us that the transverse engine was still working, we would even think that we were dead, floating in the deepest part of the universe, and even the soul could not find a way back to the ancestral land, the feeling of being banished, as if garbage had been thrown out of everything, I can't think of any words to describe it except despair. ”
In the room, several people swallowed saliva in unison, Scarlett's face at that moment made Catherine and Hao Xiaomei tremble, Hao Xiaomei quietly moved behind Hao Shen, hugged her brother's arm tightly, and her knuckles were a little white - Hao Shen swallowed in pain.
"Uh, what about later?" The system let out a long snort, and he was quite interested, "You guys...... Fell to the bottom? ”
"Later, or I don't know how long later, I'm sorry, during that time our concept of time seemed to be destroyed, as if it was a hundred years long, and it seemed like it was only a few minutes." Scarlett pinched her wrist, it was a timer similar to a watch, her face was a little confused, and she was a little helpless, "...... Later, through the recorder of the Karatos, we learned that it was actually less than three seconds, and then, everything was back to normal, the host prompted, the jump was successful, and we 'arrived' the thirty-third node universe. ”
"Oh." "But actually, you didn't arrive." ”
"Yes." Scarlett nodded, "We slipped into the Void, although the battleship host showed that our coordinates were already in the thirty-third node universe, but in fact, heh, I won't be mistaken, the appearance of the Void is something that we started talking about in the textbook of our six-year-old elementary initiation class." ”
The next thing can be guessed, the Karatos floating in the void while trying to damage the control, while searching the thirty-third node universe, to no avail, desperately fought for the last bit of energy to make a random jump to get rid of the erosion of the void, and then planted on Mars, becoming the most brilliant fireworks in the solar system.
The system quickly recorded these contents, and at the same time said: "Okay, I will investigate your description, this may be some special phenomenon in the void, you encountered it by coincidence, failed to jump, and then died unlucky, but fortunately, there is finally a true god 'protection', and you came here because of the blessing of misfortune......"
Hao Shen glared at the system hard, this kid, some words don't need to be so clear, right? "Ahem, in short, these things are not the point......
Before he could finish speaking, Scarlett jerked her head up, "No, we didn't fail to jump, but ...... The thirty-third node universe is likely to be gone! ”