On the decks of the Orion missile cruiser, the sound of the ship's command reverberated in the corridors, in the cafeteria, in the bars, in the toilets, and above the heads of every crew member.

「…… Good evening, crew members of the USS Orion missile cruiser, I'm Zhao Tianhe, your captain."

"I'm sorry to disturb your rest at this time, but please give me ten minutes to listen patiently to this broadcast."

"I'm sure you've noticed that our ship encountered unprecedented conditions when entering the hyperspace passage and stopped at a rift in space-time for unknown reasons......

"To get out of the current predicament, but also for the future of human civilization......

"We must unite!"

……

On the radio, Zhao Tianhe, the captain of the Orion missile cruiser, confessed to all the crew members of the ship what had happened and explained the battle plan jointly formulated by the first, third, and fifth departments.

The operation was codenamed "Daybreak".

Disguised as the corpses of friendly soldiers, they remain silent in deep-sea outer space to deceive observers, and travel through two centuries of history beyond everyone's horizons until their timeline coincides with the child from the year 215 of the Wasteland Era.

This broadcast, made by Zhao Tianhe himself, caused quite a commotion on the cruiser.

Not only because the identity of the teenager named Night Ten "Time Traveler" has been "officially", but also because they learned about what happened to the Twins on the radio.

Without knowing it, they became the executioners who killed their allies......

In the cafeteria on the lower deck, a group of red-faced and thick-necked crew members were arguing loudly.

A bearded man slammed his head on the table and roared unabashedly angrily.

"That's ridiculous...... Just because of suspicion, we fired neutron torpedoes at them?!"

Xiao Yong, who was sitting opposite him, holding his arms, was silent for a long time before finally speaking.

"I don't think our captain is wrong, we can't carry out that plan called 'The End War', and conflict is a matter of time. Even the moment we refused to carry out the order, the Twins' torpedoes were aimed at us."

The bearded man glared at him angrily.

"Where's the evidence? Because of your mouth?"

"There's no such thing," Xiao Yong shook his head, staring at the man without hesitation, "This is space, it's outer space, and the dead have no right to speak. I'm not afraid, I'd even rather be the one who died on that ship, but what I have under my feet must never be given to them, there is my family on earth...... So they must die."

"You ...... thing."

The two were about to fight, but they were pulled away by their colleagues next to them.

Looking at the people arguing about the Twins, Lin Youyou, who was sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, couldn't help but have a trace of sorrow on his face.

She couldn't agree with what Xiao Yong said, and she couldn't agree with the decision of the captain and his colleagues, even though they might be right.

They were the comrades who fought alongside them, and the few survivors of that war.

If everyone expresses their demands in this drastic way, even if they get through this crisis, they will definitely lose everything in the next big gamble one day in the future.

Perhaps the situation of being trapped in the hyperspace passage is the punishment that fate has imposed on them......

She looked at Ye Shi, who was eating silently on the side, and couldn't help asking.

"Do you think we're doing the right thing?"

She wanted to know what history had said about them.

Stopping the chopsticks in his hand, Yeshi replied after being silent for a while.

"I don't know, in the history I know...... You are the ones who bombed us, but who knows? There's a long list of things we don't know about, including the orbital airborne division, including the formation of the post-war reconstruction committee, and so on...... For us, the disintegration of the post-war reconstruction commission

It's far enough away, and you're before they were born."

Looking at the appearance of the "young man", Lin Youyou couldn't help but feel a little distressed, and wanted to reach out and touch the child's head, but soon thought that he didn't like to be treated as a child, so he took his hand back.

"You're talking about your evaluation, and what I want to know is actually your evaluation."

"Me?" Ye Shi was stunned for a moment, thought seriously for a while, and said, "I might be inclined to agree with your approach."

"Why?" Lin Youyou couldn't help but ask, "I killed more than 3,000 people...... or our own comrades-in-arms."

"Maybe it's because I live in an era where 'if you don't kill one person, you have to kill 10,000 people'?" Yashi shrugged, "Think about it from another angle, you guys just saved a planet."

This was actually a comforting statement, and he himself didn't know what to make of it.

From the standpoint of the Vault dwellers, it seems that only those who have not been able to enter the Vault have died, and the Vault residents will hardly be affected.

Even those they saved mostly died in the end, and died painfully in a long torment, passing on the pain they felt to their next generation.

Then those who survived became the original Wastelanders.

From this point of view, the plan called "The End War" was a benevolent choice.

Without the Wastelanders, the Enlightenment would probably not have appeared, including the Torch Church and the Celestials......

However, on the other hand, the post-war reconstruction committee will probably disappear, including Boulder City, Singularity City, the seeds sown by the former in the wasteland, and so on.

That would be a future made up entirely of Vault dwellers.

They will presumably rebuild a new human union in the wasteland according to the standards originally planned by the "Ark Project", exactly according to the standards that had been planned a long time ago.

It's hard to compare which one is better for the future.

But if you want him to choose......

"I think you're doing a good job...... Don't beat yourself up too much."

Looking at Ye Shi, who had started eating again, Lin Youyou was stunned for a moment, and came back to his senses and teased.

"It comforted me."

Chewing on the food in his mouth, Yashi said slowly.

"The first sentence is okay, but the latter sentence is sincere."

"I didn't expect you to care about people."

Looking at this interesting young man, Lin Youyou leaned his chin on the back of his hand, and suddenly said coldly with a smile.

"Speaking of which, that little girl named Jiang Xuezhou is your girlfriend?"

Ye Shi almost didn't choke on the food in his mouth, and said with a red face and a cough.

"What strange things are you talking about, how can I be with N...... Anyway, we're not in that relationship, we're teammates."

Looking at this anxious young man, Lin Youyou couldn't help but snort, and patted his back with a smile.

"Haha, don't be nervous, it's not strange to have a better relationship with a teammate in our time, is there some taboo on your side? If so, I don't mean to be offended, but I'm a little curious about how people get along two hundred years from now...... I mean emotional."

She is very honest about her own gossip.

"I don't know, you can ask Fang Chang, he knows a lot." Ye Shi was confused, and the speed of planing rice was faster.

"Really? But I'm more curious about the girl named Jiang Xuezhou," Lin Youyou smiled and said in a joking tone, "If I can live to 200 years, can you show me to meet her?"

"Okay......" Yashi replied vaguely.

If he can really meet them in 200 years, he doesn't need this guy to say it, he will take the initiative to pull them around to show off, and pretend to be ruthless with his legendary experience.

Lin Youyou didn't know what he was thinking, but he remembered this sentence and said with a smile.

"Then it's settled."

……

Although the tragic fate of the Twins shocked the 3,000 officers and men on board, fortunately the commotion did not last long, and the vast majority of them adjusted in a day or even half a day.

It's not because they're cold-blooded.

Rather, because the crew of the ship knew very well that their captain was right in one sentence.

That is, at least for now, they must unite.

It's not just about saving themselves, it's about saving the people of the future, and the kid who accidentally broke into their timeline and was stuck here with them.

Even in order to bring the captain who ordered the destruction of friendly forces to justice earlier, they would have to unite to get through the current situation.

With the same belief, both those who supported Zhao Tianhe and those who opposed him put aside the controversy at this moment.

The plan, codenamed "Dawn", has also entered the implementation stage from the initial mobilization.

The engineers of the fourth department released a repair robot, and made a series of improvements to the outside of the ship, including the inside of the painting.

They first disguised themselves as the Twins, became the surviving ones, and after leaving the hyperspace channel, they communicated with the Lagrange station as Orion to keep a record.

Then, it is the development of intelligent life called "celestial beings".

It doesn't matter if it's a fake intelligent life-

They need to let the "observers" from the future witness the birth of the "celestial beings" with their own eyes!

Although to be honest, Ye Shida didn't have much hope in his heart for this whimsical plan, he was indeed moved by the determination and self-sacrificing spirit of these people.

According to normal logic, he was the one who appeared on this ship for no reason, and it happened that the ship was stuck in the hyperspace channel, even if someone offered to kill him, he would not be surprised.

Yet no one did.

Even instead of being hostile to him and rejecting him, they cared about his injuries and greeted him with warmth.

Whether the crew believed him or not, they did treat him like a real person.

Ye Shi asked himself, he himself is not so noble.

Staying calm in the face of a desperate situation and not breaking out the evil in human nature is already his over-the-top performance.

It was precisely because they did the things he couldn't do that he was so touched in his heart.

He is a man who compares his heart to his heart.

He will do unto others as they would have done to him.

So even if he knew that all of this was just the plot of the game, it would be difficult for him to treat the people here as NPCs anymore.

They were more like his friends.

Or rather, they were his friends.

He wanted to help them get out of this labyrinth—

For the meeting in 200 years!

Yashi tried his best to recall all the details about the Celestials, and unreservedly told them to the staff of the "Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Department".

As the "ten" of this starship, although this department is the last department in the entire starship's entire department sequence, it is much more useful than the first five departments in the sequence.

All the intelligent programs on this starship are maintained by the department.

Occasionally, they even have to cooperate with other departments to develop some artificial intelligence applications, as well as assist the third department and the first department to deal with possible electronic warfare intrusions, and so on.

The engineers of the Ten Divisions are all real programming masters, and those who graduated from the higher education institutions of the People's Federation may not be as outstanding in talent as Xiao Jiang, but their professional ability and ability are not inferior to the latter who are involved in all aspects...... And everybody.

With the help of Night Ten, they didn't spend much effort to complete the design of the "Celestial Man".

It is an intelligent being with the ability to evolve autonomously.

And it is completely the extreme protection of the Aerospace Forces of the People's Union

The defending forces are designed as a model.

It will be on a mission to clean up the wasteland and restore the Age of Prosperity, and will sacrifice all the survivors of the wasteland to do so.

By the standards of the Commission on Science and Ethics, this anti-human AI is illegal from head to toe, and in peacetime, everyone on the list, from developers to sponsors, will be subject to lawsuits and sentences.

But they don't care so much anymore.

After all, according to Night Ten, even if they didn't, the ultra-conservative forces on the Lagrange point space station would have developed similar intelligent life, and even become such beings themselves.

This is an established fact in the future, and it is a fact that has already happened and cannot be changed.

What they want to do is usurp.

Let this artificial intelligence disguised as a demon kill and replace the real demon, and then be killed by the "brave" in the distant future.

In this way, this cause and effect across time forms a closed circle.

In order to prevent the demon from being killed, they also designed this intelligent life called "Celestial" while leaving a deadly back door, or a key.

That's a set of keys.

Anyone who enters this set of keys will be able to have the "Celestials" automatically formatted, thus burying this heinous demon.

Night Ten is actually quite willing to be the "exorcist" himself, but unfortunately, according to Dr. Wu, he has the attributes of an observer.

Once he takes this set of keys into the future, it is very likely that this set of keys will be invalid.

In other words, this glorious mission can only be accomplished by the Orion missile cruiser itself, which created the Celestials.

According to the "Breaking Dawn" plan, they will go to the wreckage of the "Twins" missile cruiser in synchronous orbit in 200 years to join up with Night Ten, who has returned to their own timeline.

This is an essential part......

After nearly 300 hours of hard work, all the preparations were finally completed.

With the help of the crew of the USS Orion, Night Ten relies back in the sleeping pod where he had woken up.

He's going to go back to sleep using that shady method, and then the Orion crew will send him into the nearly wrecked research ship.

According to Captain Zhao Tianhe, he didn't have to wait too long inside, they would go to the site of the accident to rescue him and wake him up from the hibernation pod 200 years later.

Looking at the people standing in front of the sleeping cabin, Ye Shi's face had a somewhat complicated expression, and finally couldn't help but complain.

「…… If you don't show up in my timeline, I must have designed the man that day."

What a wasteland locust.

That's too much!

"I promise you, we will never abandon you, it is our home after all."

Luo Yi put his hand on Ye Shi's shoulder and solemnly and solemnly made a promise.

"We will definitely meet, in the distant future."

"Hopefully...... According to you, it's just a blink of an eye for me, and I don't have to wait too much or wait too long if I don't."

As he said this, Ye Shi took a deep breath and looked at the already familiar faces and pairs of hot pupils.

"But I believe in you, and you ......."

"Let's get started!"

"Take care......" Koala also patted him on the shoulder, and then left the room after Luo Yi.

Lin Youyou glanced at him worriedly, but eventually followed behind them.

Wu Xinghuan was the last to leave.

He is the theorist of the whole plan, and he is also the one who is most apprehensive at the moment.

Yashi gave him a "don't worry about me" look, and then closed his eyes with that cynical attitude.

It's a big deal.

It's not the first time he's died.

However, thinking of Jiang Xuezhou, who was still waiting for him to go back in a corner of the universe, he suddenly had a stomachache when he was still hard in his heart a second.

Brother Guang!

Daddy knelt for you!

Let me go back, don't let me reopen!

The door to the hibernation pod slowly closed, a bitter chill creeping down his back and up his brow.

The exhaled air froze on the glass of the hatch, and he felt his conscious consciousness falter, as if he were about to return to the deep dark well.

A hint of timidity suddenly welled up in his heart.

But now it's too late to retreat, so he can only rush over.

Just like ever.

Standing outside the cabin, Zhao Tianhe stared intently at the dormant cabin, and then looked at the staff wearing exoskeletons and spacesuits on the side and nodded.

"Let's get started."

The staff replied with a gesture of understanding, then lifted the hibernation pod and walked to the room that had been cordoned off by the barrier.

The plan was to stuff the hibernation capsule back into the research ship, then restore the site to its original state as much as possible, and remove any observation equipment that could interfere with quantum entanglement.

And then......

Everything will go back to the moment it first started.

And the scientific research ship that strayed into their time and space will also become the landing craft of the Twins.

There will probably be some combatants up there.

But it doesn't matter.

The space combat teams of the three divisions are ready and waiting here in full gear.

They will subdue the uninvited guests as soon as possible, disarm them, and contain them in hibernation pods until a closed loop of corrected cause and effect is formed 200 years later.

Suddenly, without warning, the lights in the room began to flicker, as if something strange had happened.

Looking at Luo Yi who was standing aside in power armor, Wu Xinghuan couldn't help but hold his breath, and his palms couldn't help but sweat.

Almost at the same time that the engineers of the Fourth Division withdrew from the quarantine area with their equipment, the hull seemed to have collided, and it trembled slightly.

Everyone present felt the tremor -

It's like the echo of an explosion.

Everything seems to have returned to the origin of time and space.

Luo Yi couldn't help but be surprised while being stunned in his heart, and subconsciously clenched the assault rifle in his hand.

They succeeded?!

But vaguely, he felt a little wrong-

Could there be too many people hearing the explosion?

His mind was still wandering with the clues he had learned from the four and eight parts.

Only a little more than 200 people heard the explosion, and the exact number should be 227.

But now, there are no less than 100 people on site alone.

But there was no time to think, and it was no surprise that the men of the Twins had already landed on their lower deck.

"Prepare for battle!" Xiao Yong yelled, and had already rushed forward with someone first.

The blockade gates fell, blocking the area of air leakage.

Fifty combatants quickly arrived at their respective positions and then advanced towards the site of the accident in a form of encirclement.

Arriving at the door of the gym, they first threw a short electromagnetic pulse grenade into the room to suppress the possible drone equipment, and then two heavy power armor opened the way and entered the room first.

A dinghy-class ship stopped there, its two-meter-long and wide metal hull dented and twisted inward, and it was indeed not the one they had seen before—

The spaceship has changed!

Other words......

It worked!?

Everyone held their breath nervously and approached the ship in a suppressed formation.

Xiao Yong swung his fist at Luo, who nodded and pressed forward, reaching out and grabbing the twisted and deformed alloy door panel, driving the brute force of the power armor

Dragged it down.

One by one, the muzzles of the guns were aimed at the interior of the ship, sealing all the dead corners in an instant.

No one......

Luo Yi's mood was already half cold.

And when he saw the familiar sleeping pod, almost everyone's mood sank to the bottom in an instant.

Looking at the situation on the front line through the holographic screen, Wu Xinghuan, who was standing outside the quarantine area, was stunned, and his face turned pale in an instant.

"How could it be ......?"

Zhao Tianhe looked at the navigator on the side with a deep face, and the latter shook his head with a difficult expression.

"We're still in the hyperspace passage......

They didn't run away.

It's like walking around in the forest, only to return to the point where you left your mark.

Executive Officer Wu Mengke sighed, stretched out his index finger and rubbed his sour eyebrows.

"It can't be said that there is no gain, at least the ship has changed...... Maybe something went wrong."

Glancing at her cousin, who was completely stunned, she shook her head and pressed her index finger on the communicator.

「…… Let's get them out of here."