Chapter 4: Freedom
The ship gradually accelerated, leaving the battlefield behind in the dark deep space.
"Please note that the space jump is about to begin. ”
With the sound of the prompt, the roar of the ship's engine suddenly increased by an order of magnitude, and the hull of the ship began to shake violently, as if it might fall apart at any moment.
He was still immersed in a strange emotion, his chest tightened, his heart beating hard, and throbbing. Ever since he fused that data, he felt that his core program was unstable, and there were unexpected changes all the time.
He closed his eyes and wanted to be still, but all in front of him was the lone fighter plane that rushed forward to overwhelming the sky.
It was only then that he remembered a question, the spaceship in front of him could fit four people, why didn't the doctor come up and walk together?
In the blink of an eye, he knew it was a stupid question. The Doctor must have been well aware of the ship's capabilities, and knew that he would not be able to escape an enemy interception before he could start a space jump. If two people run together, they must die.
However, he thought it deeper: in the absence of the supreme authority, the doctor's orders were irresistible to him. The Doctor could have escaped on his own in a spaceship, leaving him to trap the enemy in a warplane.
As an experimental subject of a deep space warrior, although he has only learned the basics of air combat techniques, he has mastered all the basics completely and perfectly. When it comes to the battlefield, even if it is not as good as the level of the king of doctors, it can still be done just by dragging the enemy group.
However, the doctor doesn't seem to have considered the second option at all.
At this time, the roar of the spaceship's engine reached a peak, and suddenly turned into a delicate and soft sound wave. Ahead of us is no longer empty darkness, but a band of light appears. The front end of the ship began to stretch and twist, and everything seemed to be softening.
Countless space-related knowledge surfaced in his mind, and a question flashed: How can such a small spaceship withstand space jumps?!
Before he could get an answer, his eyes went black and he lost consciousness.
I don't know how long it took, and the call gradually pulled his consciousness back from the darkness: "The space jump is complete, and the target star field is reached, and the jump deviation: zero." ”
Zero bias?
He suddenly came to his senses. Long-distance space jumping, how can there be zero deviation, unless the stargate has been built at both ends. But when jumping, it was clear that he didn't pass through the stargate.
He moved his body a little, but fortunately he was aware of all parts, but his heart was beating hard, and his consciousness was not clear enough. This is the sequelae of space jumping, and it is quite bearable.
He looked out the window, and a planet appeared in his field of vision, with large purple spots on its dark red surface. Beneath the magnificent exterior, I don't know what the planetary environment is like. However, since the Doctor has set this place as the end of the route, it is supposed to be a planet that can survive.
At this time, the prompt tone sounded again: "The hull separation procedure is started, and the separation is complete." Countdown to the hull self-destruct program. ”
With a slight bang, the cockpit pops out and separates from the hull. Additional miniature engines in the cockpit are immediately activated, propelling the cockpit towards the planet. After separation, the hull began to explode silently, burning, and turned into wreckage in an instant. In the universe, I don't know how long it will take for someone to discover these wandering wreckage. It's more likely that no one will ever find out until it turns into cosmic dust.
After separation, he realized that the ejected cockpit turned out to be a complete rescue pod. And the ship's hull has long been damaged after space jumping. It is already a miracle that such a small spaceship can withstand the torture of space shuttle.
It doesn't seem to have to be blown up so thoroughly just by throwing it away from the hull, right? After the explosion, the largest fragment of the hull was only the size of a palm.
The rescue capsule gradually approached the planet, entered orbit and fell towards the planet's surface. The vibration of the cabin became more and more severe, and in the blink of an eye, there was a fiery red outside the porthole.
Seeing this scene, he was relieved. If there is an atmosphere, it may be a habitable planet. Whatever the composition of the atmosphere, it is at least stronger than a barren world with no air at all.
The rescue capsule is like a meteor, flying close to the earth, and after penetrating the outer atmosphere, the braking engine begins to start to slow down the rescue capsule.
It's just that his luck doesn't seem to be very good, there is a storm in the planet's atmosphere, and the rescue pod crashes straight into the storm, and the sky immediately spins, and the last fuel in the brake engine is exhausted in the blink of an eye. The rescue pod lost power, like a rock, rising and falling in the storm, and finally fell tilted to the earth.
After a whirlwind, he finally recovered from the vertigo after the earthquake. He tried to move his body, but felt that there was no major damage to his bones, and reached for the red emergency switch.
The switch is only halfway pulled and it gets stuck there.
"Warning! The outside air is beyond the breathable range, and it is not recommended to open the hatch. “
He ignored the warning and pulled the switch hard.
With a bang, the hatch flew out under the influence of a small amount of explosives and landed on the ground.
He climbed out of the rescue pod and looked around. Judging by the lush vegetation around it, it is clear that this is a planet where life can survive, and it is full of life.
What's more, the air here, although it is beyond the breathable range, still has about 10% oxygen. For people who have not been trained in deep space survival, or who have only completed basic survival skills, such an environment cannot survive. If you reach Advanced Survival Training, you can barely breathe. Of course, we also need to ignore the large amount of sulfur and other toxic components in the air here.
But as a test subject, he could breathe such air.
Taking a deep breath of the planet's air, he suddenly felt an indescribable lightness, as well as an indescribable feeling,
Is this feeling called freedom?
Freedom is not without a price, the price is the life that the doctor paid for it.
He began to wonder, wondering why the Doctor did this. Perhaps, just because of the name Chu Jungui?
He suddenly remembered that the Doctor had given him something when they parted, and that it was still lying in his pocket. He pulled it out of his pocket and found it to be a silver-coated glass plate, nothing more.
His brain circuits worked for a moment before he remembered what was in his hand.
A mirror, the most ordinary mirror.
He knew what a mirror was, but this knowledge was common sense downloaded through a data interface, and he had never seen the real thing.
Haven't seen a mirror? He was stunned again.
Without the routine cleaning of memory data, many things gradually become clearer. It was then that he remembered that it was as if he had never seen a mirror. That is, he doesn't know what he looks like yet. He had never thought there was anything wrong with it before, just as he had never doubted the reality of the world.
For some reason, the small mirror in my hand suddenly became extremely heavy.
He lifted the mirror and finally saw himself.
In the mirror is a young, handsome, stubborn, strong, and somewhat childish face, which looks about sixteen or seventeen years old. The point is, this face is exactly the same as the face of the teenager in the memory!
He was suddenly a little panicked, and the young man in the mirror also looked a little flustered, even the subtle expressions were the same as entering the memory data!
For a moment, he even had some doubts about his identity, and he was a little unclear whether his current self was the will of the test subject or the will of the teenager who had entered his memory.
Who is he and Chu Jungui? Or are the two one and the same?
He suddenly remembered that there was also a mission kit downloaded along with the escape route in the data area. I couldn't open it at the time, but now that I've reached my destination, I think it can be opened, right?
He called up task No. 44 in the data storage area, and with a light touch, it was successfully unlocked.
Dr. Chu's image appears in the field of vision. The doctor was still unsmiling, and subconsciously straightened his collar. It seems that while recording this video, he seems to be a little nervous and very concerned about his appearance.
In the video, Dr. Chu was silent for a moment before slowly speaking:
"Jungui, I know you'll have a lot of questions, and I know what you want to ask. It's a pity that I can't give you answers to these questions right now. Maybe one day in the future, you can find these answers yourself. Now, I've assigned you a legal identity, and it's in the data you've been given. After you return to the civilized world, you can go to the Moon Yongxing in the Xinzheng Kingdom and go there to find your grandfather. After that, live according to your own ideas and wishes, no one will arrange anything for you and no one will give you instructions. ”
"......What if," the doctor said, finally shaking his head, "so be it, I don't matter." ”
That's the end of the imagery.
He didn't expect the task to be so simple.
Just then, a new packet appears and automatically starts loading. Inside the packet is a set of personally identifiable information, all of which are standard data interfaces. Any government agency with jurisdiction can conduct inquiry verification.
As Dr. Chu's image vanished, another program began to run, beginning to cleanse his area of consciousness. This is a deep cleanup, and even rewrites some of the underlying algorithms.
He didn't resist, knowing that this was the doctor's last gift. He didn't understand what the procedure was about, but the doctor wouldn't hurt him.
As the program worked, the mechanical rigidity of his mind in favor of the program was gradually eliminated, and some strange ideas emerged that had never appeared before. By the time the cleaning program was finished, he understood that from this moment on, he would think more like a real human than an artificial intelligence program.
He is the return of Chu Jun.
He wanted to see the doctor again, not for why, but just to see more. The only thing left in this world is perhaps this image.
However, when he searched the memory area again, he found that all the data related to the doctor and the base had disappeared, and it disappeared so completely that not even the slightest clue was left.
"This ...... Why?"
He had a faint answer in his mind, perhaps, this was the doctor who asked him to cut off the history that belonged to the test subject and live as a real person from now on.
No matter how many attempts he tried, he couldn't recover the deleted data, so he had to give up.
It was then that a flickering red light caught his attention, which was the indicator light of the wreckage of the rescue pod, indicating that the remaining energy had bottomed out and would soon lose all energy.
Chu Jungui only realized his situation at this time, he was on a strange planet, and he could barely be included in the ranks of habitable planets. But behind the prosperity, it also means many unknown risks. Disease, beasts, and even civilized natives could kill him at any moment.
Now first thing, he has to live here.