Prologue (M)

"Well, can I use this ticket?"

Wang Chen stood in front of the door of the science and technology exhibition hall and asked the conductor awkwardly, he was playing a small drum in his heart at this time, if this ticket was fake, it would be too big.

"It works."

"Does it really work?"

"Really," the conductor said with a smile.

"That's good." Wang Chen breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he got a ticket for a visit in vain, and it seemed that he was really lucky.

Although Wang Chen's interest in science and technology is not very strong, the novelty of visiting real machines and equipment, robots, and even higher-end scientific and technological products is quite good.

At least, it's better than watching couples show their affection in the park......

Wang Chen handed the ticket over again: "Then I can go in?" ”

"Nope."

"Why not, isn't this ticket usable?" Wang Chen frowned and asked.

"Although it can be used, this one of yours is a group ticket." The conductor looked at the ticket carefully, pointed to the number in the lower left corner and said, "It's the ticket for the E-16 window, you need to go over there and wait for the group to arrive or 30 people will arrive...... I remember that there were already two dozen of them, and there should be enough of them. ”

After speaking, the conductor handed the ticket back to Wang Chen and pointed to an entrance in front of the left.

"Thank you." Wang Chen said with a smile, then took the ticket and walked towards the E-16 window.

Although there are some troubles, the most important thing Wang Chen lacks now is time, and wandering in this science and technology exhibition hall should be regarded as a long insight for people like Wang Chen who don't travel often.

I have to say that the newly built science exhibition hall here is really worthy of its name, it really deserves to be a provincial-level science exhibition hall, even a front gate square is bigger than a football field, Wang Chen remembers that more than a year ago here was still a dilapidated and dangerous building, I didn't expect the change to be so big.

The E-16 window in front of you, although it is only a branch hall next to the main door, is also a magnificent scene, four meters high and six meters wide on both sides of the corridor, depicting huge murals, which record the history of scientific and technological development and pictures of great inventions in history.

Most of these murals depict technological products about space exploration, from the original plasma collider to create small black holes, to the recent resonant space cutter, these types of machines account for more than a quarter of the mural.

Wang Chen walked forward, admiring the records and pictures of these murals, these scientific and technological products that he knew or were unfamiliar with were still quite interested in him.

Those high-end technologies involving space are generally strictly controlled by state organs, and it is impossible for ordinary people to own or use them......

Although space exploration has not played a significant role so far, most scientists and countries support this research and hope to build space-time machines that can connect to other spaces.

Under the frantic research of generations of scientists, a machine that can finally connect to other spaces has been built, which is a space technology product called a subspace splitter, a real space technology!

But everything was not as perfect as the state's top brass expected, firstly, the connection of the subspace splitter could not pass through the living beings, and secondly, it was ...... The subspace it is connected to seems to be an endless pitch black, like most of the regions between galaxies, patches of dark energy that are pitch black and empty.

Hawkers, although these two points disappointed everyone, but they also proved that space science and technology still have the possibility of development in the end, so the country has not weakened the research of space science and technology, but increased the investment of funds, which is really crazy, isn't it?

It's crazy to be so invested in an illusory goal, at least that's what Wang Chen thinks, although he is also looking forward to what space technology can achieve in the end......

Just as Wang Chen was looking at the materials on the mural with relish, a staff member wearing blue overalls walked over.

"Are you also the winner of today's lucky ticket?"

Lucky ticket? Is that the ticket on my head? Wang Chen rolled his eyes helplessly when he thought of this.

"Well, I am." Wang Chen handed over the ticket.

The staff took the bill, nodded and said, "Please go to the passage on the left, everyone has already arrived, and you are the last one." ”

I'm really lucky, it's the last one, and it seems that I don't have to wait for anyone else.

Wang Chen thought of this, looked at his watch casually, and found that it was already 2:58, and there were still two minutes to reach the time limit, no wonder everyone was here.

Time was pressing, and Wang Chen didn't have time to admire the murals on both sides, he walked straight to the left passage, and a wide exhibition hall gradually appeared in front of him.

Needless to say, the environment of the hall was in the center, and in the center were rows of seats, on which about two dozen people were sitting, including men and women, as well as old people and children, and even Wang Chen saw a ragged beggar inside.

It seems that these tickets are really randomly distributed.

At this moment, Wang Chen regretted a little, is it really right for him to come here to visit the science and technology exhibition to pass the time? It's okay to visit alone, but with such a group of people...... Wang Chen really couldn't imagine what kind of scene it would be!

It's not that Wang Chen looks down on beggars or old people and children. It's just、It's just that this combination is really weird! How could it be a good visit! The BGM has changed, okay!

Instead of staying here, why not go back to the park and enjoy the fresh air.

Just as Wang Chen was about to turn around and leave, the tour guide in the hall spotted him first, beckoned to him with a smile, and motioned for him to sit in the seat over there.

Looks like I can't go. Wang Chen was thin-skinned, sighed helplessly, and then walked in the direction pointed by the tour guide and sat down.

"The last gentleman is also here, so let's start the science exhibition."

"But before that, I hope you can take this medal with you." The tour guide took out a bunch of small medals from the small bag on the side and handed them out to everyone: "This is a newly developed anti-radiation medal, because there are some things inside that are more radioactive, so you must not take off the medal, don't." ”

Don't? This tour guide is also a little too nervous, although the radiation is more dangerous, but there is no need to exaggerate.

Wang Chen took the medal handed over by the tour guide, and then pinned it to the pocket on his left chest, although he felt that it was not too important, but he did it.

The other thirty people also wore medals, and the tour guide nodded with satisfaction when he saw this scene.

"The preparations have been completed, so please enjoy the development history of these science and technology histories, and you will be given commemorative gift bags after the science and technology exhibition."

After the tour guide finished speaking, he began to introduce some relevant information to everyone, and then took Wang Chen and others to the glass windows in the distance, giving you a detailed introduction to the historical background of these scientific and technological products.

Thanks to the tour guide's ability to speak so hard and carefully, Wang Chen found that except for a few people who listened carefully, everyone else was wandering around or looking around, completely uninterested in the information the tour guide said, it seemed that they came purely because of the commemorative gift bag.

In this environment, Wang Chen was not in the mood to visit, he only occasionally listened to a few words of the tour guide's introduction, and most of the time he was looking at an object placed in a glass frame in the distance...... Subspace splitter.

That's right, that is the first space technology in history that Wang Chen once mentioned, and Wang Chen is very interested in this thing.

Time passed minute by minute, and after about two hours, the tour guide finally led everyone to the front of the subspace splitter, ready to introduce the origin and purpose of this technological artifact.

But at this moment, the guide's mobile phone rang suddenly, he smiled apologetically, took out his mobile phone from his pocket and walked to another house in the distance to answer the phone.

Wang Chen glanced at the tour guide in the distance suspiciously, it stands to reason that you have to turn off your mobile phone before entering the exhibition hall, why did this tour guide not only not turn off the phone, but threw the guests down because he answered the phone?

However, Wang Chen didn't think much about this, and his attention quickly shifted to the subspace splitter in front of him.

This was the first time he had seen a real space machine, he had never seen it in real life except in the news or books, and at this moment he stood in front of this thing, only to realize that this thing was really huge.

Rectangular in shape, two meters high, one meter long and half a meter thick. There is a circular window more than half a square meter above, and an oval lever linked to the rectangular shape, which is simple and simple on the surface, but in fact the interior is exquisite wiring and control chips.

Although the space connected by this thing did not satisfy scientists, it was a different space, which was enough to make people reverie.

Wait a minute......

Just now, Wang Chen found that the indicator light on it suddenly lit up!

What's going on?

Wang Chen frowned, and when he looked again, he found that the indicator light suddenly turned red, and it was flashing!

Seeing this scene, Wang Chen's pupils contracted slightly, and even his thoughts were stunned for a moment.

He is very familiar with this kind of prompt light!

"The machine started on its own! Run, everyone! ”

Synchronized with the shout, he pulled his legs and sped towards the distant gate.

This is clearly the precursor to the reverse operation of the subspace splitter! I'll it! This thing is enough to make everyone within a radius of fifty meters be swept into another dimension!

You don't have to think about it to know! It's much more dangerous to get involved in that than to get involved in a meat grinder!

At the same time, when the people around Wang Chen heard Wang Chen's shout, they didn't take his words seriously, but looked at Wang Chen's back with puzzled and surprised eyes, and whispered in a low voice.

"What is that guy doing? Prank? A girl muttered under her breath.

"I don't know, maybe I didn't take medicine in the morning, maybe I just released a batch from the mental hospital recently." A man leaned over and snickered.

The girl was puzzled: "No, that person looks quite serious, and he was normal just now." ”

The man frowned: "Don't look at his talent, he may be a fool or something." ”

……

Wang Chen also heard some of these people's discussions, but he didn't have time to pay attention to them at all, just turned his head and glared fiercely at the man who said bad things about him, and then continued to rush towards the door.

What annoyed Wang Chen was that none of these guys took what he said seriously!

Really TM is a bunch of guys who have no common sense and lack a sense of crisis!

Wang Chen cursed in his heart.

"Boom!!"

Just as this group of people were discussing, there was a sudden loud noise from inside the subspace splitter, which was still silent, and the alloy plate at the front suddenly burst open, revealing a large cloud of pitch-black line current inside!

"Yikes!" Screams rang out, and the people present finally realized what was happening, and they hurried to escape from here, but unfortunately it was too late......

Clusters of lines are staggered, and current frantically pours into the converter inside, causing pieces of ultra-high voltage arcs to distort the surrounding space, emitting bursts of piercing squeaks!

"!!"

In less than a millisecond, the distorted space gradually rotated, gradually forming a spatial opening similar to a wormhole.

That opening, Wang Chen knows!

That's the door to subspace!!

A person who didn't even have time to scream was sucked into a crazy wormhole.

But the wormhole was still not satisfied, it rotated rapidly and wildly, and finally gradually turned into a shape similar to a black hole, and the irresistible suction sucked everything present in an instant, including itself, even Wang Chen, who was about to flee to the door, was not spared!

A wave of madness calmed down as the subspace splitter vanished, leaving only a bare floor......

In fact, just when the tour guide left, he only said two words on the phone.

"Let's go."

……

"Is it going well?"

In a surveillance area littered with display instruments, the previous officer asked a foreigner.

"It didn't go well." The middle-aged foreign man frowned and replied, if you look closely, you can see that a trace of sweat has appeared on his forehead.

"How bad was it?"

"Thirty people, twenty-nine died, but luckily the one who was alive made it through the entrance."

"Twenty-nine dead! Didn't you say that the success rate was more than 50 percent! The officer asked, slightly angrily.

The middle-aged foreign shrugged helplessly: "It was during the death row test, you must know that the physical fitness of ordinary people is not as strong as that of carefully selected death row prisoners, and they have not undergone training." ”

"Bastard!" The officer's teeth itched with hatred for this middle-aged foreign man, but he didn't dare to really do anything to him, so he could only ask again: "What happened to the living one?" ”

"Passing the final hurdle." Speaking of this, the middle-aged foreign man became excited: "I don't know if this plan will succeed, if it really passes, it will be a great credit!" I haven't been able to pass this level before! ”

"Are you sure that simply transferring the subject to an innocent human will succeed? Could this be the plan above? The officer asked with a frown.

"I don't know." The middle-aged foreign man pouted: "But I personally think that there are special qualification standards for people in that place, anyway, everything is just conjecture, because only death row prisoners or animals were used for experiments before." ”

"Because of conjecture, I started this plan! It's madness. The officer muttered under his breath.

The foreign middle-aged man smiled: "What do you think? All the madness was worth it in order to explore the truth, but I didn't expect the Federation to agree, and it seemed that such a plan could be implemented without any difficulty. It seems that in the eyes of the country's top brass, as long as it is not about their reputation, human life is not valuable. ”

"yes, I feel the same way." The officer sighed with emotion, he had experienced a lot to get into this position, although he still retained a trace of goodwill, but he also looked at human life a lot.

After all, those who died were just ordinary people.

Neither here nor there...... Everyman.

For the death of these people, for the state, it only needs to be attributed to the accident, and then pay a reasonable compensation, and that's it.

In the final analysis, human life is only worth a few pieces of paper.

"Don't be emotional, come and see the situation, this is the last hurdle, success or failure is here."

The middle-aged foreign man said solemnly, he quickly entered a string of passwords on the LCD screen of the instrument with both hands, and the large screen directly above suddenly lit up, and then showed a pitch black, and a subtle point of light in it.