Chapter 5 Ward No. 13
It was already the fifth day since David fell into a deep sleep, and if he knew that he would be in a coma for so long, he would have deeply regretted that his nerves were not strong enough to miss the moment when the spacecraft accelerated into curvature mode during his first interstellar trip.
The Icarus is the Valkyrie T-BW31, which was retired from the military headquarters after the end of the Second Full-scale Civil War thirteen years ago, combined with some of the Spark technology mastered by the Federation.
However, due to the limited demand for rare building materials, it is impossible to complete a comprehensive transformation, and it can only be regarded as a semi-finished product, with more than enough speed but insufficient firepower, and no one wants to exchange the limited political resources at hand for such a chicken rib ship.
Well, it's very much in line with the federal style of governance.
After Captain Zhou Yuehong took over, the Icarus has mostly been back and forth in the Linchuan Star Field, which is located at the junction of the Federation and the Empire.
Even if its performance is controversial in military use, it can barely be counted in the forefront of civilian logistics, and after Icarus entered curvature navigation mode, he approached a space-time hop at the edge of the galaxy in just five days.
Due to the relative fragility of the spatial structure at the hop point, the energy dissipation in the curvature navigation mode is easily affected by it, which may have an unpredictable impact on the subsequent hyperspace fold, and even the astronomical disaster that caused the collapse of the hop in the literature.
On this day, the Icarus emerged from the curvature mode and switched to the inertial mode, and after another half a day, it would reach the turning point and plunge into the mysterious hyperspace of the scientific field.
Then, after sailing in hyperspace for an instant or half a year, you can leap into the Zeeland star field in the heart of the Federation.
In this way, three similar space-time jumps will be made according to the starry route, and you will be able to enter the spaceport of the Second Military Region near the star field where the capital's star circle is located.
In fact, the theory of time and space was introduced as early as the Earth Age. According to Heim, the theory is that if a sufficiently powerful magnetic or gravitational field could be created by a "hyperspace engine", then objects in between, such as spaceships, would "enter" a completely different "multidimensional space."
In "multidimensional space", the speed of light will be many times faster than what we currently know, and spacecraft will also fly at "incredible speed" (another theory calls it a "tachyon universe" and cannot be distinguished by the human senses).
When the flight is over and the force field created by the "hyperspace engine" is turned off, the spacecraft will return to its original 3D space.
The concept is like drawing a dot on each side of an unfolded white piece of paper. In three-dimensional space, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and if a hyperspace jump is performed, the two points are overlapped, making the distance almost disappear.
It's just that because human senses can't distinguish the high-dimensional world, there will be a period of 'disappearing time' after entering hyperspace, so in the early stage of the development of hyperspace technology in many civilizations, how long can jump out of hyperspace is purely a matter of luck, evaporating out of thin air, and there are not a few people who are lost in it forever, until the technology gradually matures, so that the time of hyperspace navigation becomes 'relatively controllable'.
But the energy required to create such a large magnetic or gravitational field is also astronomical, and the relatively promising curvature propulsion technology faced similar challenges until the middle of the twenty-first century. It was the invasion of an invader fleet that accidentally strayed into the solar system that brought these related technologies to humanity that was stagnant at the time.
They are the former Moon Spirit Race, called Hakuya by the pronunciation of their language, and now the lowest slave race of human beings, and it is precisely because of this that the Moon Spirit race has been nailed to the shame pillar of the multiverse, and Hakuya has also been given many meanings, such as stupid, idiot, mentally retarded, etc., and the mantra of many races when scolding or expressing negative emotions has since been added, Madhhakuya.
As if waking up with a hangover, the first thing David saw was a Hakuya, to be honest, although he had heard more than once from others about this race that resembled the appearance of elves in the previous life games since he came to this plane, but when he actually saw the real thing, he was still inevitably amazed.
The faint light reflected a face more delicate than porcelain, and the slightly pointed ears twitched slightly with the owner's mood, looking extremely cute.
She was dressed in a pink nurse's outfit, and I don't know if it was the designer's bad taste or to take care of the welfare of the sick children, the nurse's outfit was designed quite boldly.
But this beautiful thought was shattered in the next moment, and David, whose head was still a little dazed, looked towards the source of the sound in amazement, and was almost blinded by the picture in front of him in an instant.
Everywhere you look, the most primitive behavior of creatures is being staged in the entire ward, just like the heroes in the hive chasing the queen bee, but unlike the bees, these moon spirits in nurse costumes do not have the supremacy of the queen bee, they are more like a group of consumer goods that exist for the mission of eliminating impulses, which are used by the soldiers wantonly, and the chaos of the picture is completely indescribable.
However, what made David wonder was that everyone seemed to be accustomed to this, because the messy scene in front of him was obviously not a day or two, and he even happened to see a security guard on duty outside the door who couldn't stand the torture of desire, fell to the ground in an extremely exaggerated posture, knocked a hole in his head, and shouted "Sister Nurse!" I need treatment! The slogan of justice quickly joined the warband.
The others were not surprised by this, and it was clear that there were not a few people who had gone to Infirmary 13 for solace in such a clumsy way.
As if to see David's confusion, the nurse asked, "Guest, you should be on an interstellar trip for the first time, right?" ”
David, who was in a daze, nodded, as if he couldn't take his eyes off the hot scene in front of him.
"It seems that you haven't learned the history of mankind well, isn't it normal for the Moon Spirit to be used by the strong as a defeated race?" The nurse seemed confused by David's confusion.
"Won't they resist?" Although David is also a human being, he also does not want anyone to rebel against him, but it is still difficult to understand the thinking patterns of these aliens.
It's been forty-one millennium since the Earth Age, and it's been a forty-first millennium, and it's really... It's indescribable...
If it weren't for his slight cleanliness, I'm afraid he really wouldn't be able to bear such a scene.
The nurse's eyes showed a hint of color, and she seemed to re-recognize David, "Of course I will resist, but in that era, human beings are too powerful, and the resistance of the moon spirit has no meaning, and servility will only become more and more powerful in the passage of time, because it is the common nature of living beings to be dependent on the strong and servile." ”
"Hey! Brat! Cherish the opportunity, or do you want to come and have a partner? Just as David digested this strange information, a bald man not far away encouraged him.
"Oh!!" The bald voice instantly made David the focus of his gaze, provoking a burst of shouts and encouragement.
David really couldn't bear the endless meat jokes of these rough men, so he took off the medical equipment on his body, put on his coat, and planned to go out.
The nurse stopped him, "This patient, you have lost too much blood and your master is strenuously opposed to giving you a blood transfusion, so you will need at least two days to recuperate. ”
"No need, I'm healthy, thank you for taking care of me during this time."
David smiled and waved his hand, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, relieved that after so many years, that girl still remembered her taboo.
I don't know if it's related to the fact that he had parotid cell carcinoma before the crossing, even after the crossing, he seems to have recovered because he returned to his childhood, but he has always had some problems with his blood.
It was still in a conflict with other bounty hunters who came to the ancient ruins of Jinghu to dig graves, and he was seriously injured and lost a lot of blood, Luo Yanchuan, who was eager to save people at that time, only measured that both of them were type O blood, so he drew a lot of his own blood and gave David a transfusion.
The result was completely unpredictable to everyone, originally thought it was just drinking to quench thirst, but David, who was transfused with blood, did stop the deterioration, and what was even more surprising was still to come.
In the following month, David's abdomen, which had been pierced by a knife, gradually recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Lily later analyzed the root cause:
That is, the cells in David's body showed their fangs after touching the foreign blood, which is not a description, if you put it under the microscope, you can see that David's red blood cells, which were no different from ordinary people, stretched out spikes from the cell wall at the moment when the foreign cells were approaching, stabbing like a bayonet, absorbing nutrients that do not belong to it, and then began to divide, deployed to every place where they are needed, and if necessary, they will even be actively converted into a part of the damaged organ.
Although the blood transfusion can make Davy recover as quickly as possible, if this is exposed to the public eye, I am afraid that David will not be in the ward at this moment, but in the slice bed of the Icarus's biological laboratory.
It is precisely for this reason that when David learned the knowledge of this era from Lily's database, he put bioengineering as a key subject, and the academic paper that made him directly admitted to Silver University was one of his achievements.
But even though David thought that this paper would arouse the interest of some scientific researchers, he never thought that he was obviously writing a biology paper, why would he be admitted to Yinkai University in dynamics...
David put aside his distractions, and finally refused the nurse's retention with a tough attitude, and disappeared outside the ward.
"Rin Tsukichi, why don't you leave him behind? We haven't had time to infect him yet. ”
A moon spirit who seemed to be dying shoved two fingers down his throat, vomited out a puddle of suspicious viscous liquid, got up, and asked the nurse who had spoken to David earlier.
"We've got enough infected, and it doesn't hurt to have one." The nurse named Rin Tsukichi looked around at the meat worms who were still drunk and dreaming of death, and her eyes seemed to be looking at a group of dead people.
"It's just a pity that the Void Source Worm was actually killed by that bastard, otherwise our plan could be infinitely close to success, he doesn't know the value of the Void Source Worm at all!" The moon spirit grumbled.
"It's okay, being able to control an original infected person is much better than the source of infection we originally prepared, the only drawback is that it is not very controllable, you must increase the monitoring of him, and the number of antibiotics given to him must be controlled, otherwise even if there are our people in the pharmacy department, there is still a risk of early exposure in the monthly inventory and accounting checks." Rin Tsukichi analyzed.
"But he seems to be reaching the limit, and if the supply of antibiotics is reduced, I'm afraid he will get out of control in advance... We're not ready yet. ”
"If we weren't prepared, they wouldn't be prepared, and the unexpected incident five days ago had alerted them, but if we weren't sure when the fuse would be detonated, we would be able to increase the success rate of the plan." Rin Tsukichi said this, and her face suddenly began to turn red, as if the more things she didn't control, the more she could be interested.
"You're crazy..."
"Crazy? No, arrogance for no reason is called madness, I am calm, I have never been calmer. ”
Rin Tsukichi was talking wildly, but she seemed to have received some message temporarily, and the corners of her mouth drew a charming arc, "The plan has changed, add some material to the antibiotics of these infected bodies, be sure to make the situation completely chaotic before 23 o'clock, and the organization has sent a ship to pick up the goods in advance, it seems... The things that were being transported inside this ship were more important than we had originally thought, what was it, it was really itchy, I had to... Go and see..."
Before the moon spirit could digest this hasty but extremely important news, he saw that Rin Tsukichi had already stepped out of the hospital room.
"Damn it! Why is it planned in advance! This madman! ”
Although the Moon Spirit complained, it did not dare to disobey the former's orders in the slightest, and began to deliver the catalyst to purgatory to the meat worms who were reveling through the potion distribution center.
Just as she was about to escape from this ghost place, she was stopped by an uninvited guest who had rushed in.