Chapter 7: Chaotic Encounters
Later, Lu An sometimes thought that if he completely forgot that package, maybe the fat man would not remind him.
That package may be sealed for a long time, forever forgotten, or at some point in the future, curiously opened by a lucky person, and then, it may be a different kind of wonderful story.
And in that case, will everything that happened to him in his life not happen, and he will spend his life calmly guarding Anna?
Or maybe he will die alone and lonely in the asteroid belt, no one knows, just like his father.
It is also possible that he will die in the later war, quietly and suddenly, just like his comrades-in-arms who sacrificed countless times later.
Will it be so?
But, as I have said before, life cannot be repeated, and history can never be assumed.
Lu An did receive the package, and everything that followed, if it can be summed up in one word, it may be, fate.
However, all the comprehension of fate, all the sense of fate, is only when I suddenly look back one day, I suddenly realize: Oh, all this is the original fate.
For those who experience that moment, everything in the future is in chaos and unknown, even fate.
Lu An was a little surprised when he took the package from the smiling fat man.
"What, it's such a gadget. I knew that when I came back in the afternoon, I would take it by the way, and I just carried it in my pocket, but in vain I ran over from the dormitory building. β
It's just that the slander in my heart must not be spoken, otherwise the smiling fat man in front of him will turn his face immediately, although he is in a good mood.
"What? Boy, do you have an opinion about me? β
Lu An politely thanked the fat man, and put the card-sized but heavy box in his pocket.
And just as Lu An walked back to the dormitory building, he didn't know that the fat man behind him sighed slightly, smacked his lips, and looked a little regretful and a little relieved.
Such a normal person's emotions appeared in this fat man who was like a mad dog in the eyes of all the teachers and students in the school, and being seen by others would definitely shatter his eyes.
The fat man clicked on his brain, closed the window of the security office, and opened the table drawer where he usually slept on his stomach, and it turned out to be a drawer full of medicine bottles.
Glass, plastic, metal, and some were steaming, apparently frozen, and were crammed with pills, potions, and sprays of all colors.
After the fat man stroked them one by one, he said with a smile: "I can finally go back." Damn, in this hellish place, you can't even beat someone. β
The fat man grinned and bared all his teeth, and smiled very happily.
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"What the hell?"
Lu An sat on the sofa in the bedroom, put the heavy box on the table, and said curiously.
On the other side, Lin Yongping's door was still wide open, and Lu An's roommate looked like he hadn't come back yet.
Peeling off the black tape wrapped around the box, it turned out to be a silver-gray metal box inside, so the weight was extraordinarily heavy.
"What is this?" Lu An checked it, thought about it, and then frowned and said, "It seems to be the magnetic confinement alloy used in the core power of the warship." Who wasted so much that it was used to make a broken box? β
Realizing the strangeness of this thing, Lu An became cautious, and he casually picked up the black tape that wrapped the box.
"Huh? It seems to be a heat-insulating material that isolates the scanning signal. β
Picking up the heavy alloy box again and observing it carefully, Lu An frowned again: "This thing is not a scientific research material, right?" Could it be a mistake? Are there any researchers at the school with the same name and surname as me? β
Lu An checked it with his brain, and was surprised to find that he was the only one named Lu An in the Third Military Academy, but he hadn't noticed this before. However, this shows that this strange thing should be sent correctly.
"Then what the hell, how do you open this thing?"
Lu An was speechless, groped carefully, and found that there were really no gaps in this box, as if it was a whole.
However, although this magnetic confinement alloy is precious, it is useless to ask for it yourself. Who is so bored to send themselves a piece of metal lump to play with?
Lu An lay on the sofa in a gloomy mood, feeling that he was really speechless when he encountered such a ridiculous and strange thing.
"Huh? No, the magnetic confinement alloy ......, which is a bit strange. β
Lu An thought about it, and began to inquire about the relevant information on the Zhi Brain, and after a while, he looked at the box lying quietly on the table.
Lu An searched under the table in the living room for a long time before he found a low-temperature plasma spray knife from a pile of tools, which is one of the commonly used knives today.
The plasma spray knife was opened and gently approached to the alloy box, and sure enough, when the blade part touched the box, there was a significant directional deviation, and the low-temperature plasma flow was obviously repelled by the alloy.
Lu An finally breathed a sigh of relief, and after a long exhalation, he carefully swept the box with a stream of plasma.
Sure enough, at the edge of the lower right corner of the box, the plasma flow did not deflect, although it could not cut the alloy box for half a minute, but it finally made Lu An's guess not fall through.
Repeatedly scanning the edges and corners with a plasma stream, but in just a few minutes, Lu An could see the general outline of the gap.
Lu An put down the spray knife and the box, and gestured on the table with his hand.
"Huh, why is it so familiar?"
He tore through a piece of paper, drew the outline of the gap with a pen, scanned it into the brain, and began to look up the familiar outline in the synchronous network.
"Huh? It turned out to be an information exchange interface, and I said why is it so familiar? β
The information exchange interface is the common information exchange interface of various types of intelligent brain terminals, which can be used for charging while exchanging information through current.
Lu An thought about it, and didn't dare to directly connect this box directly to his brain, what if this was a new type of secret theft device invented by an illegal organization?
Although, most of such absurd speculations are just complaints, but for the sake of prudence, Lu An decided to turn on the power first and see the situation.
An information exchange interface cable was pulled out of the table, and the outer card notch protection material was stripped away with a plasma spray knife, revealing a bare information exchange interface, exactly like the outline just depicted.
Lu An smiled comfortably, put down the plasma spray knife, and said with a slight smugness: "Yes, it's done." β
However, the bare information exchange interface was as thin as a cicada's wings, and Lu An couldn't plug it in after trying a few times, frowning and thinking about it, before connecting the other end to the power supply, and sure enough, as soon as the bare section was sent lightly, he felt that there was a suction coming.
"Click" sounded slightly, and the alloy box was connected to the power supply, trembling slightly.
Lu An stared at the box excitedly, ready to see what would appear in the box that popped open, it was worth spending so much time to open it.
One minute, two minutes,......
Five minutes passed, and the box was already lying quietly.
"Nima, what about the cheat! Who's playing with people like that? β
Lu An was about to scold.
At this moment, the room suddenly went dark and all the lights went out.
Lu An was taken aback, put his hand on the back of the sofa, and stood up. He inadvertently looked back and saw that it was pitch black outside the window, and there was hardly any light to be seen as far as his eyes could see.
Gently clicking on the brain terminal on his wrist, with the faint light of the holographic projection, Lu An came to the window to look at it, and the blindness caused by the flickering light and darkness gradually improved.
Lu An turned off the holographic projection, and looked at it through the starlight, and sure enough, the campus was already pitch black, and the shadow of a black hole was also the shadow of a black hole in the high-rise buildings that were usually brightly lit outside the campus in the distance.
"There's a power outage?"
What a rare thing to see, how did you happen today?
As one of the most core areas of the Thirteenth District, the energy supply of the Third Region has always been the top priority, how could such a serious accident suddenly occur?
Lu An looked down, and sure enough, the synchronous network connection of the Zhi Brain had been interrupted.
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"Commander-in-Chief, First Class Emergency! Level 1 emergency! β
In the combat readiness command room of the Joint Command of Region Zero, a sweaty major general rushed in. He was on duty in the intelligence room next to the combat readiness command room, but it was only forty or fifty meters away, and he was sweating profusely when he ran over.
"Calm down, say."
"In the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th districts, all military synchronous network connections were interrupted, and the first domain of the 11th district, the third domain of the 13th district, the seventh domain of the 14th district, and the second and third domains of the 15th district occurred simultaneously......"
Although the major general was sweating profusely, he was still quick to tell the situation.
"Is the connection restored?"
"Not yet. What about power outages? β
"Nope."
"Why don't you report a communication connection?"
"The resource usage of instantaneous communication connections is high, and the connection cannot be sent out effectively."
Lu Yong frowned when he heard this, slapped the table in front of him, and shouted: "Order, first-level emergency response, first-level global combat readiness." β
"Order, activate the global emergency communications network, cut off all interstellar information transmission."
"Order, cut off the ring communication network in the 4th, 5th, and 7th districts."
"Order, the joint space fleet independent reconnaissance sub-fleet, conduct real-time space reconnaissance scans of the tenth to eighteenth districts."
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A series of orders spit out from Lu Yong's mouth, and the entire combat readiness command room suddenly became busy.
"Commander-in-Chief, don't you need to inform the United Space Fleet about combat readiness? In case ......"
"It's not them." Lu Yong waved his hand and refused, and said: "It's some rats who are doing things with the Pacific Rim Synchronous Network, you restore communication as soon as possible, investigate the matter thoroughly, and find out these annoying rats." β
"Yes."
The major general went away with a sweaty head.
Lu Yong frowned, standing in the combat readiness command room for a long time.
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"Young Master."
"What's wrong? Why hasn't it landed yet? β
"Young master, it seems that something has happened, and the command center of the airport can't be contacted."
Lin Yongping frowned when he heard this.
"Young master, come and take a look, you'll know it at a glance."
Lin Yongping came to the porthole of the spaceship and took a look, and his face suddenly showed surprise, the ground under the spaceship was pitch black, and the sea of lights, which was usually as brilliant as a galaxy, was gone.
"This ......, there's a power outage?"
Lin Yongping felt a little ridiculous.
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And just when the west coast of the Pacific Ocean fell into a large area of darkness and the whole earth began to panic, at the gate of the Third Military Academy, a small spaceship no more than ten meters long quietly landed.
If it weren't for the cover of darkness, there would have been no such good guests at the gate of the military academy, which usually seemed to be loosely guarded, otherwise the huge space combined fleet hanging over the entire earth would have been known in minutes.
"Hey, fatty, I haven't seen you for a few years, why did you hide here?"
"What nonsense? Is this what you should ask? And what's called 'Hey, fatty', that's how you greet the chief? β
"Smooth mouth, smooth mouth, isn't it too exciting. sorryοΌsorryοΌsirγ β
"Hurry up, fortunately, I sent a signal to you in advance, and those masters above your head should find out after playing for a while."
Soon, the spaceship disappeared with the fat man on board, as if it had never appeared.