Chapter 2 Warp speed in flight
Hearing Zhou Xin's words, most of the children didn't feel anything, only Nunu and a few other older children looked a little stunned. After being stunned for a while, Nunu spoke: "Actually, it's nothing, and we don't know the situation at that time. Under such a fierce siege, time is so precious that it is too late to inform us. Even if we were notified, there would be no way to get us back to the surface. So, Uncle Captain, you don't have to say anything to us, sorry. This answer was echoed by the older children. As for the younger children, they had already played together after eating, and they didn't understand what Zhou Xin and Nunu were talking about.
Nunu continued, "Besides, we don't want to stay in that place at all, and even if you offer to send us back, no one here will agree. Hearing Nunu mention that he was going to send them back, the children immediately stopped playing, and some of the children who knew a little more even cried. This forced Zhou Xin and Nunu to stop talking and start coaxing the children instead.
After Zhou Xin did everything possible to assure the children that he would not send them back to Planet Norsan, they finally quieted down. Next, Zhou Xin turned back to the previous topic, "I don't mean leaving your planet, but leaving your star system. After seeing that he had finished speaking, Nunu's face showed a puzzled look, obviously not understanding the difference between the two. So, Zhou Xin took a moment to explain the difference in detail.
After listening to Zhou Xin's explanation, Nunu suddenly fell silent. After a long time, she asked in a low voice, "In other words, we will never be able to go back?" Although Nunu had just said that she didn't want to go back, she still felt a little lost when she knew that she really would never be able to return to Nuosan.
"This-" Although Zhou Xin wanted to tell her that this was indeed the case, the words became when they came to his lips, "This maybe, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than a distance that has become more distant." If we have the chance, maybe we'll go back. β
"Really?" As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, a child beside Nunu eagerly confirmed.
Glancing around at the children, Zhou Xin noticed that many of them were looking at him now with anticipation, so he nodded heavily, "We will definitely come back." However, in his heart, he silently said sorry to the children in front of him.
As if seeing the unnaturalness on Zhou Xin's face, Nunu quickly changed the topic, "Okay, everyone has finished eating, and we'll go back after eating." Hearing Nunu's words, the other children did not notice anything unusual, but stood up together.
Looking at the back of the children leaving, Zhou Xin's face changed for a while, then sighed deeply, and then walked out of the restaurant behind them.
Standing at the door of the restaurant, Zhou Xin hesitated where he should go next. After thinking for a while, his face suddenly became solemn. Soon, he chose a direction and walked out.
Standing in front of the familiar cabin door, Zhou Xin silently looked at the sign on the door. It was a long time before he entered the code on the screen next to the door and opened the door in front of him. Suddenly, rows of dormant devices appeared in front of his eyes. That's right, this is the place where the flesh of all Earth's crew members is stored - the sleeping pod.
Zhou Xin silently walked in front of the dormant devices, while silently reciting the names of the crew members lying inside. Soon, he came to a wide corridor, where he had previously been pierced by the beam attack of the spherical battleship.
Since their time on Lessan Planet, everyone's main focus was on repairing the more important areas of the Voyager. As a result, only the walls on the breached sides have been repaired until now, and at most with basic ground ease, the main part of the destroyed hypnotic remains is still firmly anchored to the ground. Walking through the wreckage corridor and looking at the hypnotic devices on both sides that were melted by the heat and most of them no longer existed, Zhou Xin felt as if he had personally experienced that attack here. While recalling the list of comrades who died in the attack, Zhou Xin slowly walked to the other end of the corridor. Then, he stared quietly at the hallway for a moment, and then slowly muttered to himself, "Let's leave this passage behind." With that, he shook his head and walked towards the next batch of intact dormant devices.
As was customary, after meeting all the crew members here, Zhou Xin told them all the experiences since this time. After all the speeches were finished, Zhou Xin stood silently in place, he took a deep look at the entire hall, and said silently in his heart: "May we be able to meet again-"
Ben came here, and Zhou Xin's visit should be over. But before he left the door, he suddenly remembered something that Atlas had mentioned earlier.
"Atlas, how is the development of the repair pod you mentioned earlier, and is there any progress?" Although she had mentioned before that it would take a long time to complete this research work, considering that since then, they had obtained a lot of useful and useless technology from the alien civilization, so Zhou Xin still asked tentatively.
"How can people have so much energy." Soon, the little girl's complaint came from the communicator, "Recently, most of people's computing power has been focused on analyzing and cracking the strange system of the Noshan civilization, how can they have time to care about other things." Moreover, didn't people mention it before, with our current state of technology, it is still difficult to complete this research. β
"Is it still like thisββ? Zhou Xin felt slightly disappointed, but because he had expected this result before, he quickly regained his composure. Next, Zhou Xin did not continue to hesitate, but stepped out of the dormant cabin.
Time flies, and nearly a month has passed in the blink of an eye. This is also the easiest period of time that Zhou Xin and them have spent in the past year. However, the time of leisure is always short-lived. It didn't take long for the Voyager to end its warp flight......