A thousand years? Despite his premonition, Aoki was still shocked, after all, he had seen this person not long ago, how could he suddenly become a mummy a thousand years ago?

"We know too little about the spatial structure of Ramla, and perhaps there are some space-time stationary zones where space doesn't flow and matter moves more slowly," Szeto explains. ”

"If the movement of matter slows down, shouldn't people live longer?" Petru said.

"No, the metabolism of the human body does not change, otherwise the person would die. The decay speed of particles in the space-time quiescent region does not decrease, but the speed of movement relative to space decreases. Situ said.

"It's still hard to understand." Boris walked over to Halsey's corpse and bent down to take a closer look at the horrible face of the dried corpse.

"You are all at sea all year round, do you know the shadow of death at the bottom of the sea, where the water does not flow?" Situ asked.

"You know, about two to four thousand meters below the surface of the North Pacific Ocean north of 32° south latitude, there is a shadow zone that stretches for thousands of kilometers, where the sea is said to have been trapped for thousands of years." Ivan said.

Boris was about to reach out and touch Halsey's clothes, when he heard Ivan's answer, he was stunned for a moment, as a submarine veteran, he was naturally very familiar with the situation under the sea, but he had never heard of this.

"Hey, Ivan, where did you know all this gossip? I dare to pack a ticket, the instructors of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy never taught this, and our submarines did not drive to a depth of two thousand meters. ”

"You should read more Nature magazines, Boris." Ivan said, "Mr. Stone, I don't think it should be called a shadow of death, because there are a small number of creatures there, just very low in oxygen. ”

Situ nodded: "You're right. Species can certainly thrive there, as long as they adapt to the environment there, but that's not the point I'm going to talk about. The point is that the water there is not flowing, and although it is integrated with the entire Pacific Ocean, it has a clear border. For centuries, the sea was stationary there, and there was hardly any vertical movement. It circulates in its own space and never exchanges with the outside seawater.

Oceanographers call it the shadow of death.

If a drifting whale accidentally enters that area, it will drift in that shadow forever unless it looks for direction and swims to the surface. Of course, whales are meant to be on the surface to breathe, so that doesn't happen. ”

"You're saying that there are also such spatial shadows in Ramla?" Aoki asked.

"Theoretically, such a spatial shadow must exist in the universe, but we can't visually distinguish such a place, because it is connected to other spaces, like the shadow of death on the bottom of the sea, but it has obvious boundaries, and it is both connected and isolated from the outside world, which is a very magical place."

Situ walked slowly to the window, stretched out his hand and wiped it on the window, but the blurred glass did not become clear because of this, but left a scratch, like the word "one" written on a brush.

"Compared with the vast universe, human beings are still just reptiles attached to the earth, and have never really left the surface of the planet, so naturally there is no chance to encounter such a space shadow. When humans begin to drive spaceships and conquer the sea of stars, they will often encounter 'still space'. Of course, at that time, human spacecraft must have been able to break free from stationary constraints, as long as there was enough power and accurate spatial curvature, but with contemporary technology - such as this warship - if it fell into stationary space, it would not have enough power to get out of this space anyway, just as we cannot escape the gravitational pull of galaxies.

The space tunnel of the Ramla anthill is constantly writhing in the universe and can appear anywhere in the galaxy at any time, and the chance of falling into still space naturally increases. Once we do, we can only wait except for Ramla to throw us out. ”

"Just waiting for yourself to be a mummy?"

Ivan remembered the days of day and night in a submarine - small spaces, cold machines, silent radio waves, and endless waiting ......, surrounded by nothing but seawater. Many officers and soldiers suffered from depression, and some committed suicide because they could not stand the eternal loneliness of being isolated from the world.

"Yes, it's their luck to be able to become a mummy, which means that the environment of that still space is not bad." Situ said, "Although people who enter the still space don't feel anything, as long as there are enough supplies and a normal environment, people can live as before, just like you live on a submarine." However, the key to the static space is the word 'static', which is not affected by gravity, the spatial position changes very little, there is almost no acceleration and deceleration, and the energy exchange between the matter inside and the outside world is very slow.

So while the time inside it is normal, with us as observers, its time shrinks to a minimum. Because we're constantly accelerating or decelerating relative to it, when we meet it, maybe it's been decades, and we've only been a few hours.

We don't have any equipment at hand, so we don't know if it was once in a special radiation field, but judging from the changes in the body and clothing of this Lieutenant Colonel Halsey, even if it is in a place with abnormal radiation, it will take at least a few hundred years to become what it is now.

From the surface of the hull, it was not electrochemically corroded by seawater, and the cabin was not damp at all, indicating that the ship was far from the ocean for a long time.

Its surface is more like a weathering phenomenon, but the traces are not obvious, indicating that the air there does not flow fast or the particle radiation is not strong, and it is completely the silent destruction caused by time. So when we look at it with a telescope from a distance, we don't see anything wrong with it at all.

This ship must have accidentally fallen into a static space-time, drifted through thousands of years of space-time, and then was caught and dragged out by a certain space-time chord or space tunnel in Ramla. ”

"So the ship is definitely unusable?" Boris felt a pity, especially the two Apaches. He drove submarines for many years, but rarely had the opportunity to touch an airplane, and only after his retirement did he fly the Mi-2 at a customer. He had always wanted to try a Mi-4 or higher.

"The energy must be exhausted, and you'd better not touch the weapons on the ship, it's not safe." Situ said, "But such a big ship can be used as a base for us, which is much better than living in the open woods." Ivan, go and see if the gangway is rusty, if you can put it down manually, and you can't climb the rope every time you come up. ”

Ivan said yes and took Boris out of the command room.

"Let's go out too." Situ said.

"Don't you want to see another cabin?"

"There is no power supply, the cabin on the lower level is dark and invisible. We need to find some torches. ”

They came to the side of the boat, leaning against the railing, and the lifeboat they had been in was below, and the people on the boat were craned their necks, eagerly awaiting the news from above.

"Madam, don't worry, we're trying to figure out a way to get you up!" Petru shouted towards the boat.

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