The execution engineering components exist in the fleet as a whole, but within each ship there is a branch structure, and Xiaomei and the other mysterious experts have not seen the overall outline of the execution engineering components, and cannot understand how this thing connects each ship, and there is no specific information in all the data that can be consulted. However, everyone has seen its branching structures in their own ships. Specifically, it does not resemble a normal mechanical structure, and its style is completely different from that of any machine ever seen in the human world, but it is not entirely unfamiliar, because similar elements are depicted in works full of human imagination - rings on rings, like imaginary things used to observe astronomical star orbits.

The ships of the Space Joint Experimental Fleet are inconvenient to travel between each other, and if there is no important matter, most of the mysterious experts located in each ship only use communication to communicate and exchange data through various disembodied information channels, and Xiaomei has indeed not been to other ships, but according to mysterious experts who have been to other ships, the branch structures of the executive engineering components in each ship have similarities in appearance and many differences, and it is these differences that make these branch structures look like they take on different functions.

Some mysterious experts speculate that these different functions of the branch structure of the executive engineering components scattered in each ship together constitute the whole of the executive engineering components, which means that in fact, there is no independent and core executive engineering components as a whole. In this regard, Xiaomei is only skeptical, but after the personnel within the space joint experiment fleet have disagreements over the application of the implementation engineering components, it will be more difficult to enter other ships. Xiaomei remained silent in order to hide her specialness, and she never applied to go to other ships.

The Combined Space Experiment Fleet is now sailing on a journey of "three light years", and at the same time, it is also located on a battlefield that seems to never stop, but perhaps because of the factors of time and space, all attacks and other interference phenomena on the Joint Space Experiment Fleet are at a stable intensity, and they cannot directly break the defense of the Joint Space Experiment Fleet, nor can they cause physical impacts. Of course, this kind of stability is definitely not a normal situation in the eyes of all mysterious experts, but in the current situation, if you are still alive and can move forward, no one will try to take a greater risk to find out the reason, and only regard this temporary "stability" as their own luck for the time being.

Besides, it's useless to think about things even badly, and it's already very difficult to survive what can survive on this battlefield just by continuing to survive.

Xiaomei has the same doubts about the situation of the Combined Space Experiment Fleet as other mysterious experts at this time, but she also understands the practice of not going deeper into the analysis. They themselves do not have the ability to comprehensively analyze the current situation, after all, there are too many factors that lead to the establishment and maintenance of a state, and in the battlefield full of mysteries, these factors already have a certain amount of mysteries, and the people who can do it to perceive and analyze are probably only Omi of the Internet ball in the eyes of everyone - but he is not in the cosmic joint experiment fleet now.

One person's knowledge is limited, one's wisdom is limited, and even if the knowledge and wisdom of many, many people are combined, the extent to which it can reach is still extremely limited in terms of the unknown whole that extends infinitely into the depths. For the unknown, and the mystery that comes from the unknown, every mystery expert has his own understanding, basically, everyone will form a worldview that encompasses the meaning of "mystery" from their own experiences and thoughts. The same is true of Xiaomei, in her opinion, the most important point why mystery is mystery is that when one needs to know it, understand it, and dissolve it, it is impossible to do such a thing in such an urgent immediacy.

The "mystery" has a time limit for many people, and one can hope to decipher it in the distant future, through tireless efforts and long enough, however, for occultists, the horror of "mystery" is that you can always assume that you have enough time and potential to know it, but you don't.

Objective and practical disasters will always destroy you when you are unable to recognize and understand the mystery that lies before you. And you can only pray that, beyond that, anything that seems to make a difference will eventually be proven to be just a blessing over and over again.

- The time of death has not yet arrived.

Xiaomei can now understand the meaning of this sentence. Because the time of death has not yet arrived, it has become a moment of luck to favor oneself again and again, but in fact, it is not lucky, it is just that the time of death has not yet arrived.

Even now, when the Cosmic Combined Experimental Fleet is trapped in the long time and distance of "three light years", but it has not been destroyed by the strange and inexplicable phenomena that continue to appear on the battlefield, it can all be explained that the time for the death of himself and others has not yet arrived. Because the time of death has not yet come, there is more to be done.

Xiaomei walked in the uninhabited passage, and she had been walking for a long time. She's looking for a branch structure that executes engineering components on her ship. This branching structure is not fixed everywhere inside the ship, and although many mysterious experts have seen it with their own eyes, it is basically located in different parts of the ship's interior. Searching for this branch construct through an internal monitoring system has proven impossible. In Xiaomei's opinion, whether or not you can encounter a branching structure and submit your own ideas to it depends more or less on personal luck, or there is some kind of dwarf, which makes it easier for some mysterious experts to encounter branching structures, while others are not.

Compared to the mysterious experts who had seen the branch construction of the executive engineering components of her ship, Xiaomei felt that her luck or phase was a little worse, and when she decided to do something about it, she hadn't encountered it for a long time. She even couldn't help but think that the executive engineering component itself has the ability to detect the state of consciousness of the mysterious expert, and to make targeted adjustments to each individual.

If this kind of targeting can represent some or all of the will of the people behind the scenes, can it also be assumed that their eyes can see everyone in the cosmic joint experimental fleet, no matter where they are?

Xiaomei is not sure if the mastermind behind the supposedly "enemy" is watching her somewhere. But she didn't feel a special sight.

Xiaomei's footsteps echoed through the empty passage. She carries a cane-shaped magical girl's special weapon, and the fluttering magical girl battle uniform is made of mystery, even if she fights for so long, there is no mess, and the damage that appears in the battle can be gradually repaired afterwards.

The head of this magic staff is inlaid with a purple-red crystal-like object, but Xiaomei has confirmed that it is not a crystal mineral in the true sense of the word, and its structure is not at all any of the structures of known inorganic minerals, and at the same time, some of it is organic, and most of the self-functioning intelligence it exhibits comes from organic structures. The magical girls have analyzed for themselves that this magic weapon has the possibility of "coming back to life", just like changing from a dead thing to a living thing.

Xiaomei's magic staff was working on its own at this time, shielding her from the surrounding surveillance system as much as possible. Xiaomei doesn't want to leave evidence of her independent actions anywhere, but she doesn't have the technical strength herself, and doing it through a magical girl's cane is already her full strength.

However, all the while, it seems to be quite effective.

Xiaomei does not have a clear destination, nor a clear plan, and the location of the branch structure that executes the engineering component cannot be counted as a valid formula, at least for the time being, it seems random. It doesn't make sense for her to find it, according to any of the practices that circulate. Even so, Xiaomei wasn't entirely lucky.

She has an intuition that her own particularity will also manifest itself here. Or maybe her friend Madoka from far away in London Repeater will help her—although she doesn't know how her intuition, intuition, peculiarity, or help from her friends will appear, she still believes that the result she hoped for will definitely come.

Xiaomei walked alone for a long, long time in the passage, and she hadn't seen anyone else in the place she had passed through for a long time. Even if the mysterious experts in the Combined Space Experiment Fleet were still active without being disturbed, it would be equally difficult to encounter them outside of a few specific locations within the ship. Because, compared to the vastness of the interior of each ship, there are too few mysterious experts who have survived and boarded the ship.

Even if there are dozens or hundreds of people, scattering each ship is undoubtedly putting multiple ants into the building.

The quieter it is, the more you move inside, the stronger this feeling of not having the slightest smell of people becomes. Time seemed to freeze in silence, and the occasional sound of a mechanical structure at work seemed to come from far away. The repetitive passage often gives people the feeling that they are constantly walking in a passage, and they want to know that they have walked far, which can only be calculated by counting the footsteps or their own heartbeat. Only by taking the operation of one's own physiology as a reference can one truly feel that he is still active, and that he is not in harmony with the things around him that seem to be solidified.

In this lonely and quiet atmosphere, where only she was left with her own silence, she felt more and more clearly something invisible accumulating inside her mind—unable to tell if it was some emotion, or stress, or something else, in short, something that she could not see, but could feel herself.

As long as there is silence, it accumulates. The more you accumulate, the more unbearable it becomes, but as long as you endure it, it seems that you can continue to accumulate it, and you can't feel if there is an upper limit.

However, at this time, Xiaomei knew that there was indeed an upper limit. These intangible things that I have endured in silence and accumulated have finally broken through this upper limit in this long and quiet journey.

As if her spirit was overwhelmed, as if her heart had collapsed, as if it was an illusion, Xiaomei heard a voice that did not belong to her, and it emerged directly from the depths of her heart.

There are many occult experts who have talked about similar situations, but the situations they describe are often "things that I have never thought of come to my mind through my own voice", and at this time, Xiaomei's voice as if she was hallucinating can make her very sure that this is definitely not her "heart".

It is indeed saying something, vaguely, vaguely, and it is precisely this way that people feel that this is just a delusion that is generated when their own mental pressure has reached the limit.

Is the result of silence being an illusion? Xiaomei couldn't help but think so, has Mr. Takakawa heard it too? Obviously, from the time I have been in contact with him, I can't feel that there is anything wrong with Mr. Takakawa himself. Talking to him, he has always had a relatively delicate and rigorous logic in his conversation and demeanor.

Although Xiaomei regarded this voice as a side effect of her silence, she couldn't help but listen to it, because, no matter what she thought, this voice would not disappear, it seemed to come out of her heart. It wasn't my own, but it was familiar.

Xiaomei couldn't think of a familiar place, she had a sense of déjà vu, the idea that she must know was about to come out, but she felt that the voice was too secret and vague, which was annoying, and she wanted to make it clearer.

It's not your own voice, what do you want to say to yourself? Even if it's just her own hallucination, Xiaomei wants to know what kind of hallucination she will do at such a time.

She thought about it as she continued to move forward in silence, feeling that the appearance of this voice had a great deal to do with what she was doing now, and as long as she kept doing it, it would keep getting closer and closer to her, and she would be recognized by herself in a clearer way.

In the quiet passage, Xiaomei's footsteps are fixed. In this fixed rhythm, it seems that there is a different atmosphere from the past.

- Da, Da, Da,

Xiaomei stopped after four hundred steps, because she suddenly had a strong feeling, which directly pulled her out of her obsession with the vague voice of her own heart, and made her remember once again what she had walked alone in this long passage.

Branch construction of the executive engineering component, just around here. It's impossible to pinpoint it exactly, but it's nearby, very close, maybe underfoot? Maybe on the ceiling? Maybe on the other side of the wall? However, at least in the passage where he was, he couldn't see it from front to back.

At this time, the "voice of the heart" became a little clearer.