Chapter 9: A Short Journey

Lin Xuexi was guided by the AI to a large and empty workshop, with a delicate spaceship docked in the middle. In addition to her assistant Wen Xiu, who arrived with her, there was also a young man with blue eyes and curly brown hair. The three of them are all the people who actually thawed the base this time, and the remaining experimental subjects could not be revived due to Lin Xuexi's order not to thaw.

In the sixties of the twenty-third century, the young man volunteered to join the "Crossing" program, named Horod, a native of Northern Ireland, and the son of the president of the global health care giant at the time. Fitton company invented a weight loss drug, can effectively inhibit intestinal absorption, but does not hinder digestion, so as to achieve the purpose of weight loss, this diet drug came out quickly swept the world, because after the realization of controlled fusion, human society has become more and more affluent, most people do not need to work at all to worry about food and clothing, the desire for food and laziness make the body obesity of the earth people increasingly aggravated, and this diet pill from the root to solve the embarrassment of gourmets and gluttons in the face of food lack of self-control.

Holod is a complete son, and to outsiders, squandering his father's money and constantly changing girlfriends is all his life, but no one would have imagined that the reason he joined the time-traveling program was to quit his drug addiction.

But to be honest, Holod has not completely recovered from the shock that human civilization has been destroyed after the sudden awakening, and at the same time, he was intimidated by Lin Xuexi's peerless demeanor, and he seemed a little silent for a while.

Horod glanced at the quantum gun on Lin Xuexi's waist, which they had taken from a weapons showroom before, Lin Xuexi and Wen Xiu each wore one, and he, apparently, had not yet won the trust of the two beautiful girls.

Wen Xiu seemed to be deeply hostile to him, and his unfriendly gaze seemed to warn him not to get too close to them, so he had to follow the two girls in good sense in order to admire their graceful curves.

The voice of the AI sounded again, but this time there was no holographic projection, "This is the epoch-making technological product of Fermi: the gravitational shuttle." As the name suggests, it adjusts the graviton ratio in the gravitational chamber to achieve a series of operations such as lifting, levitation and landing, but acceleration and deceleration require additional power. The fusion chamber is equipped with the world's highest known particle reactor, which can accelerate to the speed of one thousandth of a light in three minutes, and the maximum speed can reach four million kilometers per hour, but the acceleration and deceleration are extremely energy-intensive, and the protection mode must be turned on in advance before acceleration. Weapon systems include interstellar missile bombs and space mines, photon cannons, proton bombs, vacuum bombs, and Yuan Qi bombs based on particle reactions. The company produces a total of three gravitational shuttles, the 'Fantasy' is in the headquarters of Fermi, the 'Terminal' is in service in Zhongnanhai, and the one in front of you is called 'Hope'. ”

Lin Xuexi walked up to the cone-shaped spaceship, which was conical in front and back, gently stroked its pitch-black and smooth surface, and asked, "So, how can I learn to pilot it in a short period of time?" ”

"You don't need to learn to drive it, ma'am, or rather, you've learned to drive it. Any mechanical invention is to simplify human labor, you just need to take out your identity card, verify it and get permission, and then say your request to it, and the fourteenth generation of super-intelligent AI inside will help you solve the problem. ”

Lin Xuexi felt that she was despised, from the contempt of a cold chip without thoughts, she became as sensitive as a countryman who had just arrived in the city, pretending to calmly take out her identity card and swiped it in the groove in front of the hatch.

A somewhat pleasant mechanical female voice sounded: "Welcome to the Hope Gravity Shuttle, Dear Ms. Lin Xuexi, you have all the control over the Hope, please tell us your purpose." ”

"Now open the hatch and we're going to the surface." Lin Xuexi said.

The hatch opened slowly upwards without the expected sound of mechanical friction, not even pneumatic or hydraulic.

The trio boarded the gravitational shuttle, which had no intricate buttons and electronic touch screens, only a few sofa loungers and tea tables, arranged like a living room, and the back of the cabin had bedrooms, toilets, entertainment rooms, etc. for long-distance travel, of course, long-distance travel here refers to interstellar travel. There is an analog joystick at the bow of the cabin, and next to it is written in scarlet Chinese font: Non-professional special training personnel are not allowed to carry out manual driving operations!

"There are three large exits to the surface from here to the 'Explore' and 'Crossing' bases, one is located between the Sweet Water Sea and the Dead Man's Gully, to the northeast, and one is in the white mudflats to the northwest, and the nearest exit to us is at Bilongtan due east of here, you need to determine an exit." This fourteenth-generation AI seems to be more advanced than the previous one, and there is already a bit of frustration in the tone.

"Let's go to Bilong Pond." Lin Xuexi made a decisive decision, and there was no need to hesitate in this choice. The two companions did not disagree with this.

"Yes, ma'am. Three minutes later, you will arrive at the exit of Bilongtan, please wait. ”

Lin Xuexi sat on the sofa, watching the gravitational shuttle pass through a tunnel that was not very spacious, the lights on both sides of the tunnel were speeding backwards like meteors, no tracks or cables were found around the tunnel, there were turns and ups and downs from time to time, and the Hope was as stable as a giant ship moored in a calm bay, and it didn't feel even the slightest bump at all. At this point, her heart was a little heavy, and she made the worst prediction of what the outside world would like, making sure that she would not be stunned or frightened by what she saw when she stepped on the ground.

Holod felt that the atmosphere was a little solemn, and it seemed that it was necessary to use his unique talent to relieve the embarrassment, and making girls happy was definitely the most proud skill of his life.

"Hey! Girls! "Holod suddenly regained his true self, a rare absence of oily tones and hippie smiles, looking gentlemanly, but still frivolous." We seem to have forgotten to introduce ourselves, my name is Horod, and I'm from England in 2264. ”

The two girls sat opposite him, only one table apart, Lin Xuexi sat by the window in a daze, and didn't seem to hear him speak, and Wen Xiu's attitude towards him ignored him at all, which made him embarrassed to withdraw the hand that had been stretched out for a long time.

Wen Xiu took out a piece of white flannel from her bag, put her big black-rimmed glasses that looked very heavy, and wiped them carefully, it was obvious that she had not been cured of myopia in the era before she was frozen.

"I know what you're trying to do, Mr. Holod, but I advise you to settle down and put away your little tricks, for in anarchy like this, whoever has the weapons has the final say." Wen Xiu glanced at the quantum gun on her waist a little defiantly, she likes to get straight to the point when she speaks, lacking the subtlety of the Chinese. "By the way, I forgot that you don't know the current situation, this is the modern history of the earth's civilization, hurry up and take a look, we don't have enough time." Wen Xiu casually threw a microcomputer screen in front of Horod, and his tone was full of arrogance and arrogance.

"Are you threatening me?" Feeling his motives questioned and his dignity trampled on, Holod had to get up from his seat, angry and even angry to raise his tone to preserve what little pride he had left. "I'm a lifetime super member of Fermi!"

"Calm down, friends." The noise here finally pulled Lin Xuexi back to reality from her fugue state, she slowly stood up, and the seriousness in her tone was like the leader of a department who went to the remote front line to inspect, "It's unbelievable, the world is about to be destroyed, humanity is facing extinction, and you are still here for some trivial things." Mr. Horod, you may be resentful, but I have no guilt for you, you must know that it was not my idea to thaw you, but an accident caused by the depletion of energy, and you and I happen to be the first and second priority thaws, and she is another accident. Lin Xuexi subconsciously glanced at Wen Xiu when she said this.

"I don't care how you managed to get such a high VIP level from Fermi, but once the thaw starts, it can't be interrupted, I believe you should have this common sense, and most importantly, we can't continue to spend a lot of energy to thaw test subjects, but we need enough people in our plan to complete the mission, and we urgently need a kind and honest person with courage and resourcefulness to escort our two weak women, although you seem to have nothing to do with these adjectives, congratulations! Mr. Holode, you have been exceptionally admitted, if we can contribute to the reconstruction of human civilization, then there is no doubt that you will be an important part of it, because even if the human race outside is extinct, the experimental subjects here cannot be thawed, then at least there are still us, for the sake of human reproduction. And you, as the last man in this world, must take on the responsibility of mating. Wen Xiu's eyes widened and she looked at Lin Xuexi, like looking at a stranger, and couldn't believe that those two dirty words just now came out of her mouth.

"Xiaoxi, why do you seem to be a different person?" Wen Xiu was a little surprised by how much Lin Xuexi had changed, it seemed that this crossing plan would indeed make people's temperament change greatly.

"Not all changes have to be done imperceptibly, didn't you do the same before? It took me more than five hundred years to change, isn't it long enough? Lin Xuexi still seems to be haunted by what happened more than 500 years ago.

Holod made up the beautiful picture of spending the rest of his life with the two beauties in front of him, and he didn't care about Lin Xuexi's disparagement of him in his previous words.

"But in the end, I didn't have me in this plan, and it's torture for me to spend a minute with a promiscuous addict like you, and if it can't be avoided, then let humanity go extinct." Lin Xuexi slowly walked to the lever, "Okay, we're here." ”